. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. livin; but I tell youtis hard work for some of em. You know how we often wonderedwhat had become of lots of them chaps that we mined with up inold Hangtown, Forest Hill, and other diggins. Well, there theyall are, or the most of them. When the mines give out, or they gottired of prospecting, they just put for the big city to strike a job ofsome kind, and I tell you, I kinder pitied some of em. Theyhave such a woebegone and old-fashioned, one-hundred-years-agokind of
. The Argonauts of California, being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days;. livin; but I tell youtis hard work for some of em. You know how we often wonderedwhat had become of lots of them chaps that we mined with up inold Hangtown, Forest Hill, and other diggins. Well, there theyall are, or the most of them. When the mines give out, or they gottired of prospecting, they just put for the big city to strike a job ofsome kind, and I tell you, I kinder pitied some of em. Theyhave such a woebegone and old-fashioned, one-hundred-years-agokind of look about em, hanging round the wharves, anywhere, look. THE ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORNIA. 315 ing for a job. I tried to get some of em to come along up herewith me, and offered to pay their expenses up. Told em there waslots of places where they could pan out or cradle a first-rate livin,and told em, too, how they could jest fence in a few acres ofground, set out some fruit trees, make a good garden, and live likelords. But they reckoned twas too far off and they couldnt getback to spend their evenings in town with the i^^:,M\H ^^°.
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