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Updated: June 26, 2025
Scudamore could have endured the loss and the disillusion of his love pure and strong as that power had been but the ruin of his native land would turn his lively heart into a lump of stone. For two or three days he roved about among the people of the water-side boatmen, pilots, shipping agents, store-keepers, stevedores, crimps, or any others likely to know anything to help him.
"Yes, but you had better let me show you a little bit about getting the things ready for your market store. The nicer your vegetables look, and the more tastefully you set them out, the more quickly will people stop to look at them and buy them. Wise gardeners and store-keepers know this and it is a good thing to learn."
Most of the store-keepers are purchasers of gold either for cash or in exchange for goods, and many are the tricks from which unsuspecting diggers suffer.
This Chinese door, like that of Acheron, refused to surrender its prey. Time was passing. I had successively adopted every attitude of feverish expectation; I had exhausted every pose of a museum of statues, and saw that my suspicious blockade of the pavement alarmed the store-keepers.
It is the custom for the small store-keepers, as well as the more affluent merchants, to confide their affairs at such seasons to others, and I have frequently seen advertisements in the New Orleans Picayune, and other papers, offering a gratuity to persons to undertake the charge in their absence.
The majority of the mechanics at this place are making preparations for moving off to the mines, and several hundred people of all classes lawyers, store-keepers, merchants, etc., are bitten with the fever; in fact, there is a regular gold mania springing up. I counted no less than eighteen houses which were closed, the owners having left.
This was not paying work, but they were not disappointed; they had not expected to strike upon good ground at the first attempt, and were quite satisfied by the fact that they really had met with the gold which they had come so far to seek. That evening Abe made a bargain to bring up goods from Sacramento for one of the store-keepers, having previously found the rate which was current.
The store-keepers keep shop, of course, but they open lazily of a morning and close early at night. The whole city yawns and rests and longs for the coming of the autumn and Congress. "It is amusing and amazing to see it begin to wake up at the beginning of the session. Then begins the scramble of the hotels and boarding-houses to secure members of Congress. Then begins"
The farmers were too busy with the harvest to "come to town for trading" except on Saturdays, and the arrival and departure of the two daily trains did not cause more than a ripple of excitement in the village. Patsy decided she would shop at each and every store in the place, and engage the store-keepers in conversation about the election.
Just as they expected the store-keepers to sell them fair measure and full weight, so I expected them to sell a full day and honest effort. It wasn't always possible to secure a result but when it wasn't I got rid of that man on the first occasion. It was very much easier to handle in this way the freedom-loving foreigners than I looked for; with the American-born it was harder than I expected.
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