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He heard a rending crash behind him, a voice that cried aloud in mortal pain, a shot. Then, silence. On the morning of February 28, 1850, Theodore Shillaber, with a number of friends, made a visit to the former's leased land on the Rincon, later known as Rincon Hill.
"Squatter's rights," returned the large youth, calmly, and spat uncomfortably near to Shillaber's polished boots. "And what are squatter's rights, may I ask?" said Shillaber, striving to control his rising temper. The youth tapped his rifle barrel. "Anyone that tries to dispossess us'll soon find out," he returned gruffly, and, turning his back on the visitors, he strode back toward his cabin.
I heard of your new trouble, in my sick chamber, where I have been all winter, with regret, and wish you as ready a release from attending difficulty as your genius has hitherto achieved under like circumstances. Yours, very truly B. F. SHILLABER. The manifestations of sympathy from his fellow-citizens in Bridgeport gratified Barnum more than all the rest.
If we could scare her good, if we could tip some John to rough it with her some night, she might stampede to the altar." "That's easy, but you can't put a stop-order on a thing like that. There's no telling how far the guy might go." "Oh, she'll take care of herself," said Jim, carelessly; "she's as strong as a pony." "If you'll take the chance I'll stake a shillaber to do it.
"Wait," called Shillaber, red with wrath, "I notify you now, in the presence of witnesses that if you and all your scurvy crew are not gone bag and baggage within twentyfour hours, I'll have the authorities dispossess you and throw you into jail for trespassing." The large young man halted and presented a grinning face to his threatener.
The spectacle of the day was a representation of the battle of Yorktown, with G. Washington and General Horace Cornwallis in character. The article pleased Mr. Shillaber, and Mr. Browne, afterwards speaking of it, said: "I went to the theatre that evening, had a good time of it, and thought I was the greatest man in Boston."
In commenting on the reasons for the broadening and deepening of his humour with the passage of time, Mr. Clemens once remarked to me: "I succeeded in the long run, where Shillaber, Doesticks, and Billings failed, because they never had an ideal higher than that of merely being funny. The first great lesson of my life was the discovery that I had to live down my past.
And with him had vanished Alec McTurpin, though a sly-eyed little man now and then brought messages from the absent leader. In the end Shillaber triumphed, for he persuaded Captain Keyes, commander at the Presidio, that the squatters were defying Federal law.
Southwick, as I read it, understood Mr. Shillaber as asking him about a person coming out of Newbury Street, and whether, for aught he knew, it might not be Richard Crowninshield, Jr. He answered, that he could not tell. He did not understand Mr. Shillaber as questioning him as to the person whom he saw sitting on the steps of the rope-walk. Southwick, on this trial, having heard Mr.
Didn't they take the San Antonio ranch in Oakland, defend it with cannon, and put old Peralta in jail for bothering them with his claims of ownership?" He laughed. "It's a rare joke, this land business. If we squat on the Rincon, who'll dispossess us? Answer me that." "But it's government ground. It's leased to Ted Shillaber," one objected. "To the devil with Shillaber," McTurpin answered.
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