Excerpt from Dry Stories The father would tell him great beauti: ful stories of great, beautiful Texas, his parents' native state; and the boy would sit rapt in listening - of course he would. There would be the story of the Alamo, how Crockett fell, and Bowie smiling, though pierced with gaping wounds; how Travis had his cot lifted across the line to fight, and how all the Texans died there, scorning the surrender offered them by the swarthy Mexicans. John would tell him how only one woman and a girl babe were left, who slipped out to life and freedom from their pitiless enemies. And John and she would know that the blessedness of the hour was but the lineal descendant of that pivotal first night, when he, sober, strong, stood by her, and in that first night with her first-born, renounced his vice and consecrated him self to a better life. That brought her back to the now, and the light stir of the wee one at her side. Tonight they would decide on the baby's name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.