. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. Overland journeys to the Pacific; Agriculture. 270 A CALIFORNIA TRAMP. on prone slab or stone erectly standing. Here lie side by side pale-faced nun and swarthy Indian girl, pious priest and dark-hued native ranchero. Thickly strewn are the graves; irreverence would say too thick for comfort. But there is no elbowing for precedence in the narrow halls below; there is no jostling to
. A California tramp and later footprints; or, Life on the plains and in the Golden state thirty years ago, with miscellaneous sketches in prose and verse ... Illustrated with thirty-nine wood and photo-engravings. Overland journeys to the Pacific; Agriculture. 270 A CALIFORNIA TRAMP. on prone slab or stone erectly standing. Here lie side by side pale-faced nun and swarthy Indian girl, pious priest and dark-hued native ranchero. Thickly strewn are the graves; irreverence would say too thick for comfort. But there is no elbowing for precedence in the narrow halls below; there is no jostling to provoke resentment in that world of silence. Granite and marble shafts covered some of the graves, bright sweet smelling flowers grew from others, while some were neglected hollows. The Catholic has a love for the beautiful engrafted in his piety, and you see the homes of his dead ornamented with shrubs, flowers and s^ea-shells. The sun slowly sinks below the hills back of the Mission Dolores, and the visitors are departing from the shrine of their pilgrimage. Twilight is mantling the graveyard, and in its shadows one can almost imagine he sees the cowled monks standing rebukingly among the tombs before the representa- tives of a race whose progress was so antagonistic to their labors. With uncanny thoughts I close the clanging gates and leave the abode of death for the congenial society of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kenderdine, Thaddeus S. Newton, Pa. [Philadelphia, Press of Globe printing house]
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