Crusoe's island . ree lines from head-quarters;then fancy you hear him jingle the last of his federalemoluments in his pocket, and sigh at the ingratitudeof republics. Would you not consider him open toany proposition short of murder or highway robbery?Would you be surprised if he accepted an invitationfrom Mr. Wise, the aeronaut, to take a voyage in a bal-loon ? or the berth of assistant manager in a diving-bell?or joined the first expedition in search of the treasureburied by the Spanish galleon on her voyage to Acapul-co in 1578? Then consider his position, as he standsmusing upon the mutab
Crusoe's island . ree lines from head-quarters;then fancy you hear him jingle the last of his federalemoluments in his pocket, and sigh at the ingratitudeof republics. Would you not consider him open toany proposition short of murder or highway robbery?Would you be surprised if he accepted an invitationfrom Mr. Wise, the aeronaut, to take a voyage in a bal-loon ? or the berth of assistant manager in a diving-bell?or joined the first expedition in search of the treasureburied by the Spanish galleon on her voyage to Acapul-co in 1578? Then consider his position, as he standsmusing upon the mutability of human affairs, whenthose strange and inspiring cries of Washoe fall uponhis ears for the first time, with a realizing sense of theirimport. Borne on the wings of the wind from the SierraNevada; wafted through every street, lane, and alley ofSan Francisco ; whirling around the drinking saloons,eddying over the counters of the banking offices, scatter-ing up the dust among the Front Street merchants, t^=L I. I1DRKAU FOB WASHOEl O 2 322 A PEEP AT WASHOE. arousing the slumbering inmates of the Custom-house—what man of enterprise could resist it? Washoe ! TheComstock lead! The Ophir! The Central—The BillyCholler Companies, and a thousand others, indicating intrumpet-tones the high road to fortune! From thecrack of day to the shades of night nothing is heard butWashoe. The steady men of San Francisco are aroused,the men of Front Street, the gunny-bag men, the brokers,the gamblers, the butchers, the bakers, the whisky-deal-ers, the lawyers, and all. The exception was to find asane man in the entire city. No wonder the abstracted personage already referredto was aroused from his gloomy reflections. A friendappealed to him to go to Washoe. The friend was in-terested there, but could not go himself. It Avas a mat-ter of incalculable importance. Millions were involvedin it. He (the friend) would pay expenses. The busi-ness would not occupy a week, and would not interferewith
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