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"Only that you must explain what all this row and rumpus is about with Aunt Sally." Standing at the top of the steps, with one foot outstretched, old "Forty-niner" paused and steadily regarded the small face above his shoulder. Ned returned the gaze with equal steadfastness, as if he were pondering in his troubled mind the best course to pursue.
"You bet there were," agreed the forty-niner, "and the entire history of San Francisco was made around this Plaza. Here were built the first hotel, the first school-house, the first bank; within a stone's throw the first Protestant sermon was preached, the first newspaper was printed and the first post office was opened.
Nineteen fair to middling Wallachian girls offered at L130 @ 150, but no takers; sixteen prime A 1 sold in small lots to close out terms private. "Sales of one lot Circassians, prime to good, 1852 to 1854, at L240 @ 242, buyer 30; one forty-niner damaged at L23, seller ten, no deposit. Several Georgians, fancy brands, 1852, changed hands to fill orders.
"Here on the corner of Kearny," continued the Forty-niner, "was an old adobe building with a red-tiled roof and a veranda around it." "The City Hotel!" I exclaimed delightedly. "How did you know?" He eyed me curiously. "My grandfather was a near-forty-niner," I reminded him. "Oh yes. Too bad! Too bad!" he added sympathetically.
Of course, suspicion instantly pointed to "Forty-niner," who indignantly denied that he had brought, or even thought of bringing, anything home which his beloved mistress did not wish there. "Doesn't anybody trust me any more about anything?" he concluded, wistfully. The accusation had come from Mrs.
"Your own?" asked the girl teasingly. "No, saucebox. My boy, John's. His, and all the rest of 'em." "Toward whom?" "Oh! 'tisn't toward anybody, out and out. If it was I'd roll up my sleeves and switch the lot of 'em, just as if they were the little tackers they act like. It's them pesky hints and shrugged shoulders, every time the Dutch Winklers or 'Forty-niner' is spoke of.
If I ain't a blind man, and maybe I am, that's old 'Forty-niner' hoofing himself home, and Whew! That's Marty, limpin' and leanin' alongside. Well, I 'low! More trouble and plenty of it. Seems if all creation was just a-happenin' our way, blamed if it don't. Giddap there, Moses!"
"I shall take them as a message of hope that I shall win the love of the woman who is dearer to me than all else in life!" The Plaza A Chinese Restaurant. Yerba Buena and the Reminiscences of a Forty-Niner The Plaza and its Echoes "Be careful," I warned, "you'll get your feet wet."
Thus another sort of Forty-niner became in his way as significant and strong, as effective and as romantic as his brother, the red-shirted Forty-niner of the diggings.
Don't you remember, mother, and you, Ephraim, the curious little switch Nero used to give his tail whenever he was turned around? Well, this 'spook' horse did just the same thing. Oh, I know, I know I'm right!" "But how could he turn a black horse snow white, even if you are? As I remember Nero he wouldn't stand much nonsense, even from his own master," said "Forty-niner." "Pooh!
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