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Updated: May 15, 2025
Clearly he was no longer at the tavern, and clearly some one had taken the trouble to bandage his hurts. At length his eyes rolling from side to side focused themselves on a low opening near the foot of his shakedown bed. Beyond this opening, and at some little distance, he saw a sunbonneted woman of a plump and comfortable presence. She was leaning against a tub which rested on a rude bench.
The head, sunbonneted, reappeared perked inquiringly sideways. "Hello, stranger!" it called with a nasal inflection, "how air ye? Do y' think minin' is goin' t' pan out well this yar spring?" Then she caught sight of his weapon. "What are you going to shoot?" she asked with sudden interest. "I thought I might see a deer." "Deer! hoh!" she cried in lofty scorn, reassuming her nasal tone.
He talked to bearded Dunkards and their sunbonneted wives; and when he found a Confederate veteran he listened to the tale of the defense of Richmond, delighted to find that the Boys in Gray were not merely names in the history-books. Of all these discoveries he wrote to his mother, wishing that her weary snow-bleached life might know the Southern sun.
The women and the children stood aloof, sunbonneted women, brown, some with new-born trail babes in arms, silent as they always stood. Across from the Oregon band stood almost as many men, for the most part unmarried, who had not given hostages to fortune, and were resolved for California. A cheer arose from these.
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