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Updated: May 6, 2025
The loud-swearing drivers, and the stubborn, patient, hard-pulling mules did not fail to vary and enliven the scene. A journey of eighteen miles brought us to this place, where we are encamped upon the county fair-ground. California is a mean, thriftless village; there are no trees shading the cottages, no shrubbery in the yards.
"'The daughter of General Berthelin an ex-aristocrat by family, like the old lady; but by principle as good a republican as ever lived a hard-drinking, loud-swearing, big-whiskered old soldier, who snaps his fingers at his ancestors and says we are all descended from Adam, the first genuine sans-culotte in the world.
Major O'Shaughnessy, our host, was one of that class of my countrymen I cared least for, a riotous, good-natured, noisy, loud-swearing, punch-drinking western; full of stories of impossible fox hunts, and unimaginable duels, which all were acted either by himself or some member of his family.
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