as
the old fellow made a leap, I raised old Bet, pulled trigger, and she
spoke out. The smoke blinded me so, that I couldn't see what I did; but
as it cleared away, I caught a glimpse of only one of them going
through the bushes; so I thought I had the other. I went up, and there
lay the old buck kicking. I cut his throat, and by that time, Tiger and
two of my dogs came up. I thought it singular that all my dogs wasn't
there, and I began to think they had killed another. After the dogs had
bit him, and found out he was dead, old Tiger began to growl, and
curled himself up between his legs. Everything had to stand off then,
for he wouldn't let the devil himself touch him.

"I started off to look for the strangers. My two dogs followed me.
After gitting away a piece, I looked back, and once in a while I could
see old Tiger git up and shake the elk, to see if he was really dead,
and then curl up between his legs agin. I found the strangers round a
doe elk the driver had killed; and one of 'em said he was sure he had
killed one lower down. I asked him if he had horns. He said he didn't
see any. I put the dogs on where he said he had shot, and they didn't
go fur before they came to a halt. I went up, and there lay a fine buck
elk; and though his horns were four or five feet long, the fellow who
shot him was so scared that he never saw them. We had three elk, and a
bear; and we managed to git it home, then butchered our game, talked
over our hunt, and had a glorious frolic."

Crockett served in the Legislature for two years, during which time
nothing occurred of special interest. These were the years of 1823 and
1824. Colonel Alexander was then the representative, in the National
Legislature, of the district in which Crockett lived. He had offended
his constituents by voting for the Tariff. It was proposed to run
Crockett for Congress in opposition to him. Crockett says:

"I told the people that I could not stand that. It was a step above my
knowledge; and I know'd nothing about Congress matters."

They persisted; but he lost the election; for cotton was very high, and
Alexander urged that it was in consequence of the Tariff. Two years
passed away, which Crockett spent in the wildest adventures of hunting.
He was a true man of the woods with no ambition for any better home
than the log cabin he occupied. There was no excitement so dear to him
as the pursuit and capture of a grizzly bear. There is nothing on
record, in the