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Now, some of the chief men of Yerba Buena, Folsom, Howard, Leidesdorf, and others, knowing the importance of a name, saw their danger, and, by some action of the ayuntamiento, or town council, changed the name of Yerba Buena to "San Francisco." Dr. Semple was outraged at their changing the name to one so like his of Francisca, and he in turn changed his town to the other name of Mrs.
On the steep bluff above had been excavated, by the navy, during the year before, a bench, wherein were mounted a couple of navy-guns, styled the battery, which, I suppose, gave name to the street. I explained to Folsom the object of my visit, and learned from him that he had no boat in which to send me to Sonoma, and that the only, chance to get there was to borrow a boat from the navy.
Next thing you know Red Cloud and all his young men will have slipped around their flank and come galloping back to the Platte, leaving the old men and women and worn-out ponies to make tracks for the 'heap walks' to follow." And Stevens listened dumbly. Influence he had never had. Folsom might be right, but it was a matter in which he was powerless.
Jimmy Peters, the landlord's boy, scouting out to Folsom's, came back on the run, breathless from three-quarters of a mile of panting through that rare atmosphere, to say that he had just seen a couple of officers ride away to the fort, and old man Folsom with "the Engineer feller" were coming out the front gate. They'd be along in a few minutes.
While Folsom was walking the deck with an old friend, whom he had found among the passengers, Joe went on an exploring expedition. He made his way to that portion of the deck appropriated to the steerage passengers. Among them his eye fell on the man who swindled him. "You here!" exclaimed the fellow in amazement. "Yes," said Joe, "I am here." "I thought you said your ticket wasn't good?"
Boynton is a first lieutenant, and the only first lieutenants junior to him here are Hastings, who is eminently indiscreet, and Folsom, who is a martyr to rheumatism, as you very well know.
"'Bum' is right. Maybe she'll do to dredge some day." "Too bad you missed the Oregon; there she goes now." The man pointed seaward. "Too bad?" "Sure! Don't you know? Why, Miz Folsom went out on her!" Folsom halted; after a momentary pause he repeated, vaguely, "Went out?" "Exactly. Didn't you know she was going?" "Oh yes of course! The Oregon!"
Major Burleigh, he added, was to meet him, whereat the girls were silent. "If you could have beard the major pleading with that cantankerous old fool at the fort in Marshall's behalf you would get over your wrath at Burleigh just as I did," said Folsom, to both, apparently, and still neither answered. Burleigh was evidently persona non grata in the eyes of both.
Particularly did Folsom pet and encourage the dogs, two of them splendid mastiffs in whom Hal took unusual pride. Then he would return to his son's bedside, bend anxiously over him and lay a loving hand on Pappoose's lustrous hair.
I gave the first squaw the last hardtack in me saddle-bags and tould her was it Machpealota, and she said it was, and he was wid Box Karesha that's ould Folsom not six hour ago, an' Folsom's gone back to the cantonment." "Then the quicker we skip the better," were the aide-de-camp's words. "Get us to Reno fast as you can, Dean. Strike for the road again as soon as we're well beyond their buffalo.
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