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Updated: June 12, 2025
But a weary lot they all were they and their animals; weary and seemingly bewildered now that they actually had arrived in the famed gold fields of California. Mr. Grigsby set the pace, as usual, for his party. Straightaway he led, down the first ravine out of Shirt-tail, up the other side, and into a draw or pass which wound among the hills.
Ah! what fine breeches; not very long in the legs, but, then, what room everywhere else! He could hide away entirely in this immense space which allows a shirt-tail, escaping through a slit, to wave like a flag.
We're going up there, and will be happy to carry it for you," shouted one from the Belle. "Hurraw for the bully-boat Belle!" vociferated another. "How are you off for bacon hams?" asked a third. "We can lend you a few, if you're out." "Where shall we say we left you?" inquired a fourth. "In Shirt-tail Bend?"
But we continue to fire into the bosoms of our families the daily press with its specialization of Hogan's Alley and the Yellow Kid, reeking with its burden of ads. of abortion recipes and syphilitic nostrums even take our wives and daughters to the Tabernacle to be told by Sam Jones that if they don't think he has backbone he'll "pull up his shirt-tail and show 'em!"
He added, with a grin, "You can keep your snot-rags." "Now see here!" said Hal, angrily. "This is pretty raw!" "You get your duds on, young fellow, and get out of here as quick as you can, or you'll go in your shirt-tail." But Hal was angry enough to have been willing to go in his skin. "You tell me who you are, and your authority for this procedure?" "I'm marshal of the camp," said the man.
I was behaderin' round wid the gangs on the 'bankmint I've taught the hoppers how to kape step an' stop screechin' whin a head-gangman comes up to me, wid two inches av shirt-tail hanging round his neck an' a disthressful light in his oi. "Sahib," sez he, "there's a rig'mint an' a half av soldiers up at the junction, knockin' red cinders out av ivrything an' ivrybody!
His first thought was his boots expecting to find them under his stretcher, and himself in flannels; but he had them still on, and also his work-clothes, humanity to the sick in the first stages not being in the Colmoor code. He spent half an hour in stealthily tearing a square foot from his shirt-tail; then, weary and sick, went to sleep.
"You savvy Wunpo?" he asked, "hi-ko man busca gol'? Him sendum piece of lock!" He produced a piece of rock from a knot in his shirt-tail and handed it over to her slowly. It was a small chunk of polished quartz, half green, half turquoise blue; and in the center, like a jewel, a crystal of yellow gold gleamed out from its matrix of blue.
By some intangible indications Andrew and I felt impelled to leave, he proceeding to harness the horse and I accompanying him. "Just look here, 'Giddy-giddy Gout with his shirt-tail out," exclaimed the lad, breaking into one of the poetic quotations of which he was rarely guilty. "Now, I didn't know me pants was tore. I must have looked a goat!"
"Pass the hat, boys," ordered the spokesman of the camp; he fished out his buckskin sack, shook a generous portion into the top of his old hat, and started the hat through the crowd. Somebody hustled back with flour, somebody else with bacon; Shirt-tail camp fairly fought for the privilege of handing these and other supplies in, to the wagon, and there was added a buckskin sack half full of dust.
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