five o'clock
for God 's sake , Betsey -- Juliet , run for my rifle ! '' The judge then went into the house ; but , as three pistols were drawn from our holsters , neither he nor his rifle made their appearance , so we turned our horses ' heads and rode on leisurely to Austin . In Austin we had a grand opportunity of seeing the Texans under their true colours . There were three hotels in the town , and every evening , after five o'clock , almost all of them , not excluding the president of the republic , the secretaries , judges , ministers , and members of Congress , were more or less tipsy , and in the quarrels which ensued hardly a night passed without four or five men being stabbed or shot , and the riot was continued during the major portion of the night , so that at nine o'clock in the morning everybody was still in bed . So buried in silence was the town , that one morning at eight o'clock , I killed a fine buck grazing quietly before the door of the Capitol . It is strange that this capital of Texas should have been erected upon the very northern boundary of the state . Indians have often entered it and taken scalps not ten steps from the Capitol .