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MMKIIBS OF (MIL. ELLIS P. BEAN Ediird r W. P. YO KfM . . . I he next day the parxms tame again, and drought with them a olonel who read to us the king ' s order which was. that every rifth man wa- to M hung, for hring on the king ' s troops: but. as some were dead, there wen- hut nine of us and. out of the nine, hut one had to die. This v.a- ti, I,, ,|e, ided by throwing dice on the head of a drum. Whoever threw the low.M HI- ! ' . ! executed. It u- then agreed that the oldest muM throw hr t. I was the youngest and had to throw | a -t. The hr-t wa- blindfolded, and tw i dice put in a gU tumbler. He was led to the drum which was put in the room, and there rast the dice on the head of the drum. And so we went up one by one. to cast the awful throw of life or death. All of my companions, except one. threw high: he threw four. A- I was the last, all his hopes were that I should throw lower than he. As for my part. I wj- indifferent about it. for I had resigned myself to fortune. I took the glass in my hand, and gained the prize of life, for I threw h e. M x r companion, who threw four, was led away from us. urrounded |jy rlerc). to ! e ei uteil the next day. . . . by THE BOOK CLUB OF
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HERE is nothing official about Peter Ellis Bean ' s Memoir. He had nobody to convert; no superiors to impress with his virtues and abilities; no axe to grind. He wrote because he loved life, including him- self, and had a story to tell. He did not know B from Bull ' s foot about spelling and gram- mar; but he had vitality, imagination, lust for living. His life story was first published, after having been polished and otherwise doc- tored, in Yoakum ' s History of Texas (1855). The original document would be priceless now. Peter Ellis Bean was the Casanova of Texas. He came here, about 1800, on a mus- tanging adventure with Philip Nolan, was captured by the Spaniards, drew a white bean, was taken prisoner to Mexico, became a patriot in the war against Spain, finally got back to Texas and settled down in Nacog- doches. He had a wife in Tennessee, another in Mexico, and one or two in Texas, all at the same time, though his Memoir omits mention of them. What it is strong on is the way the Mexican senoritas and widows were attracted to him while he was prisoner; also his extraordinary escapes from prisons, and the white lizard that became his pet in the dungeon at flcapulco. Bean ' s Memoir is the first in a series of remarkable adventure narratives written by Texans on their experiences as prisoners in Mexico. They are unique in the chronicles of America, vigorous, plain, full of fire and blood. They include Thomas Jefferson Green ' s Journal of the Mier Expedition, which re- lates the dramatic story of the drawing of the black beans at Salado, and George W. Ken- dall ' s Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Ex- pedition. No fictionist of America has been able to invent situations more absorbing than are contained in these personal narratives. IV 7 .
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