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The folks that could suspect old 'Forty-niner' of wrong things'll be plumb ready to watch out for one another. Somebody'll be caught nappin', sure. 'Tisn't in human natur' to walk upright all the time, and it's foolish to expect it. But shouldn't wonder if I'd be the next one accused. And it comin' Christmas time too. Land! I'm so bestead I've sewed that patch in wrong side up. What? Hey?
No need to be a Forty-Niner to picture it all as if there that night: the great high and square room lighted by candles and the warm, yellow light of kerosene lamps; the fireplace with its huge logs blazing and roaring; the faro tables with the little rings of miners around them; and the long, pine bar behind which a typical barkeeper of the period was busily engaged in passing the bottle to the men clamorous for whisky in which to drink the health of the Girl.
"Old forty-niner, this beats all I ever saw!" "Shore I've seen Sacramento look like thet!" added Bate Wood. Pearce and Cleve gazed with fixed eyes, and, however different their emotions, they rivaled each other in attention. "Jesse, what's the word?" queried Kells, with a sharp return to the business of the matter. "I've picked a site on the other side of camp. Best fer us," he replied.
The conductors on the trains had taken care of us, because my father was a railroad man, at the head of the telegraph system; and we had been entertained on the way by the stories of an old forty-niner with a gray moustache, who told us how he had shot buffalo on those prairies where we now saw only antelope.
We're sure to do it after a while, Then good-bye to Californy!" Canfield's "Diary of a Forty-Niner." The beautiful Casino at Monte Carlo stands in one of the loveliest settings on earth. Facing the blue Mediterranean and enhanced by the exquisitely kept marble villas of Monaco, it may justly be called the acme of gambling institutions. It has become an institution through the years.
For it was a horse in agony which sent that moving appeal from the thicket near by, and as soon as "Forty-niner" was sure that the man was recovering, though he could not as yet speak, he sought the poor beast and saw, to his distress, that for it there was no respite save in death. "Well, well, well! This is a bad job all round, but better a horse than a man, and lucky for both I came when I did.
"We'd better quit for the night, I guess," remarked his new friend, who appeared as delighted as he. "I expect you've made as much as half a dollar. Now it's time for tenderfeet to go to bed." Through the dusk Charley trudged back to the fire, with his pan and his gold, feeling much indeed like a regular Forty-niner. His father and Mr.
"Early days," echoed the miner, "well, I guess I did. I'm a forty-niner." He straightened himself proudly and looked to see the effect of his words. "I think we had better go." Again I touched the Antiquary's arm but he gave no heed to my signal. "There must have been some stirring times here in the days of the gold rush."
A forty-niner's a forty-niner, and a man that came in fifty well, he might as well have come in sixty or seventy, or even in the twentieth century. It's the forty-niner that counts in this community." He drew himself up proudly. Then plunging his hand deep into his pocket, drew out a nugget. "Picked that up off my first claim," he explained, "but the dirt didn't pan out so well.
Kane, I rather took a fancy to her general style and gait arter seein' her in that fix last night. It was rather like them play pictures on the stage. Ye don't think she'd make any fuss to seein' a rough old 'forty-niner' like me?"
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