about 3 o'clock in the morning
He said that most of us would be chawed right up , an ' that them that was n't chawed up would wish they had been before Santa Anna got through with 'em . '' `` Many a threatened man who runs away lives to fight another day , '' said Obed cheerfully . `` That 's so , '' said the Ring Tailed Panther , `` an ' I say it among us three that if we do n't take San Antonio we 'll have a mighty good try at it , an ' if it comes to hangin ' an ' all that sort of business there 's Texan as well as Mexican ropes . '' They reached another belt of forest about 3 o'clock in the morning , and they concluded to rest there and get some sleep . They felt no fear of the Mexicans who , they were sure , were now riding southward . They slept here four or five hours , and late the next afternoon reached the first settlement on the Brazos . Ned and his companions spent a week on the river and when they rode south again they took with them nearly a hundred volunteers for the attack on San Antonio , the last draft that the little settlements could furnish .