In the midst of life; tales of soldiers and civilians . a Ibolp terror i THERE was an entire lack of interest inthe latest arrival at was not even christened with the pictur-esquely descriptive nickname which is sofrequently a mining camps word of welcometo the newcomer. In almost any othercamp thereabout this circumstance would ofitself have secured him some such appella-tion as The White-headed Conundrum,or No Sarvey —an expression naivelysupposed to suggest to quick intelligencesthe Spanish quien sabe. He came withoutprovoking a ripple of concern upon thesocial surface of Hur
In the midst of life; tales of soldiers and civilians . a Ibolp terror i THERE was an entire lack of interest inthe latest arrival at was not even christened with the pictur-esquely descriptive nickname which is sofrequently a mining camps word of welcometo the newcomer. In almost any othercamp thereabout this circumstance would ofitself have secured him some such appella-tion as The White-headed Conundrum,or No Sarvey —an expression naivelysupposed to suggest to quick intelligencesthe Spanish quien sabe. He came withoutprovoking a ripple of concern upon thesocial surface of Hurdy-Gurdy—a placewhich, to the general Californian contemptof mens personal antecedents superadded alocal indifference of its own. The time was B 1bolB terror 221 long past when it was of any importancewho came there, or if anybody came. Noone was living at Hurdy-Gurdy. Two years before, the camp had boasted astirring population of two or three thousandmales, and not fewer than a dozen majority of the former had done a fewweeks earnest wo
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