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A. On going to the Alamo to make the ? an Old Mexican Woman kindly brought me out a small chair & Table. She had live near the 'Alamo' from a Child, & had Known nearly all those who fell in the wars "Yes Sir" said She "I knew them all; poor Travis! what a Tiger Santa Ana must have been; I shed many a tear during that siege - he can have no peace! Whilst She was recounting the horrors of the Siege, I was Sketching & Sympathizing with her, when she looked over my shoulder "An Señor, had you but seen the X Alamo on a Feast Day as I have seen it, not like it is now, in ruins, you would have been delighted - & yet I would not have My Old Rancho being for the best hands in Sn Antonio" She flattened the dry drawing as it went on etc. resumed her

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