. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. of hispersonage. Jimevinced a decid-ed partiality forbright calico shirts—at five dollars apiece; for whichhe appropriated the bulk of the earnings of himself andhis handful of followers. These shirts he would puton, one after another, until he had perhaps a half doz-en telescoped over his person at once, never taking the. the noble savage. 1 Al-cal-de is the Spanish equivalent for Justice of the Peace; but under thelax judicial methods of the Mexican regime, the functions and powers exercisedby the officials be
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. of hispersonage. Jimevinced a decid-ed partiality forbright calico shirts—at five dollars apiece; for whichhe appropriated the bulk of the earnings of himself andhis handful of followers. These shirts he would puton, one after another, until he had perhaps a half doz-en telescoped over his person at once, never taking the. the noble savage. 1 Al-cal-de is the Spanish equivalent for Justice of the Peace; but under thelax judicial methods of the Mexican regime, the functions and powers exercisedby the officials bearing this title were often little, if any, short of , to the unrefined Digger perception, as with Jim, alcalde came to be sy-nonymous with chief, or headman ot the tribe or community. For full his-torj of this office .see Shinns Mining Camps, New York, 1885. A FRIGHTENED SQUATTER. 109 trouble to remove or to cleanse the ones he had previ-ously successively donned. Thus arrayed, he was ful-1} satisfied to allow the rest of his august figure to re-main exposed in its natural grace and symmetry. Oc-casionail}, enough dustwould be dug out to layin a sack of flour, in whichcase the lord would mountthe purchase—a hundredpounds—on the back of hisspouse, and then stalkalong in her rear with truesavage self-complacencyas she trotted home withthe burden. One da}, the ordinaryroutine of t
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