. To California and back;. The smallest of these communities is great in con-tent. Literally couched beneath his own vine andfig-tree, plucking from friendly boughs deliciousfruits, finding in the multifarious products of thesoil nearly everything needful in domestic economy,and free from most of the ills that flesh was thoughtto be heir to, what wonder that the Californian enviesno man, nor ever looks wistfully over the sierrascrest toward the crowded cities and precarious farm-

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