Chapter 8—Tom Crabbe Entrained by John Milner
Eleven by the five and six is not a throw to be despised when the player does not bring off nine by the six and three or the five and four and go to the twenty-sixth or fifty-third square.
Perhaps it was to be regretted that the State indicated by the number happened to be a long distance from Illinois, and no doubt Tom Crabbe was rather disgusted at it—or at least his trainer was.
Fate had sent them to Texas, the largest of the States of the Union, which alone has an area larger than that of France. This State, situated in the south-west of the confederation, borders on Mexico, from which it was not separated until 1835, after the battle gained by General Houston over General Santa Anna.
Tom Crabbe could get to Texas in two ways. He could
