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"Have you found a job already?" said Folsom. "Yes, sir." "You have kept your promise, Joe. You said you would take the first job that offered." "Yes, Mr. Folsom; I meant what I said." "Come round to the Leidesdorff House this evening and tell me how you made out." "Thank you, sir, I will." "That seems a smart boy," said Carter. "Yes, he is. Help him along if you have a chance." "I will.
"I invite you all," cried Leidesdorff, waving his hands and almost dancing in his eagerness. "Every man-jack of you in all Yerba Buena." "How about the ladies, Leidesdorff?" called out a sailor. "Ah, forgive me, Senora, Senorita!" cried the Dane remorsefully. He swept off his wide-brimmed hat with an effort, for he had a fashion of jamming it very tightly upon his head.
"What ship is that?" he asked of Leidesdorff. "I haven't learned her name. She's from the north coast with a lot of sick men. They've the scurvy and flux, I'm told. Dr. Jones has gone aboard." "I wonder what McTurpin's doing at the ship?" said Spear. "He'll get no gambling victims out of ailing seamen." "It's something else he wants, I fancy," said Bob Ridley, coming from the dock toward them.
They were discussing the probability of an occupation by the American marines. "If they come ashore," said Leidesdorff, "I'll invite them to my new house. There's plenty of rum for all, and we'll drink a toast to Fremont and the California Republic as well." "Hurrah! Hurrah!" came a cheer from several bystanders.
Farther down was Finch's, better known as John the Tinker's bowling alley; Cooper's groggery, nicknamed "Jack the Sailor's," Vioget's house, later to be Yerba Buena's first hotel. The new warehouse of William Leidesdorff stood close to the waterline and, at the head of the plaza, the customs house built by Indians at the governor's order looked down on the shipping.
As we stood talking on the corner of California and Leidesdorff streets, a friend still living in San Francisco who had an office in the Liverpool and London and Globe Building suggested to me that I had better take an option on some of that company's vacant rooms.
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