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An' his sisters an' his uncles an' his aunts begun pourin' in from the Azores they're all related there, you know; an' pretty soon San Leandro was a regular Porchugeeze settlement. "An' old Silva wound up by buyin' these five acres from grandfather. Pretty soon an' father by that time was in the hole to the neck he was buyin' father's land by the hundred-an'-sixties.
"Besides, my grandfather used to own this. They know me. Forty years ago old Silva come from the Azores. Went sheep-herdin' in the mountains for a couple of years, then blew in to San Leandro. These five acres was the first land he leased. That was the beginnin'. Then he began leasin' by the hundreds of acres, an' by the hundred-an'-sixties.
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