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It was terribly cold, the thermometer registering twenty below zero; but the sun was very brilliant, and the air still. The driver pulled up before a very ambitious wooden hotel entitled "The Eldorado," and Albert dashed in at the door and up to the stove, with both hands covering his ears.
Doesn't it make you feel lovely and shuddery to belong to a Wicked Compact! Oh, you needn't think I shall go back on the rules and regulations! If somebody gets down on his knees and implores, 'Which note shall I flat? I shall turn coldly away, or else say, 'Suit yourself, my dear! But, girls, oh girls, I hope there won't be any pianos in Eldorado!"
She was married in a green silk, an' we girls said she married a green husband!" T.O. laughed enjoyingly. She began to feel acquainted with Emmeline, and to hope she should find the green house perhaps it would be the Eldorado house! Wonders happened sometimes. "I don't suppose there isn't a blue pump, is there?
French Louis, striding a little in advance of his companions, did not look it. He had parted company with his hat somewhere along the route, and a frayed silk kerchief was wrapped carelessly about his head. And for all his ten millions, he carried his own travelling pack on his broad shoulders. "And that one, the one with the beard, that's Swiftwater Bill, another of the Eldorado kings."
On his return he gathered his letters into a volume entitled "Eldorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel."
With this and a pack on his back Philip started on foot for the land of Eldorado. Four men were in the party, all from Oneida County. He walked all the way and arrived on schedule, after a six months' journey. Philip was the only one in the party who did not grow sick nor weary.
She snatched up a hat and shawl from the commode, and, with hurried movements rearranged her hair; then she followed him submissively into the gathering dusk, shrinking close as if to efface herself whenever they passed anyone. The streets were full of men now, mostly bound from hotels, lodging houses and tents to the Eldorado and kindred resorts.
From a copy of the original, Thomas Bulfinch reprinted the exact entry of the discovery on May 11, 1792, in his Oregon and Eldorado, a Romance of the Rivers, Boston, 1866. The log-book is now on file in the Department of State, Washington; but that part from which Bulfinch made his extract is missing; nor is it known where this section was lost as it was in 1816 that Mr.
The ancients called it 'fool's gold. Martin Frobisher brought back four shiploads of it from Baffin Land thinking that he had discovered an Eldorado.
Forty Mile men told the story of his two tons of flour, and made calculations of what it had returned him that ranged from half a million to a million. One thing was known beyond all doubt, namely, that the half share in the first Eldorado claim, bought by him for a half sack of flour, was worth five hundred thousand.
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