Acknowledgments
Mostof the third story in “Christmas and Remembrance�—about Tim Cude and the oxen—first appeared inThe Longhorns, published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1941. The publishers have kindly granted permission to use the story in this volume.
“James Bowie and the Bowie Knife� first appeared in theSouthwest Review, Vol. XVI, April, 1931.