Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . guished from the common herd. There was a certain gallantswagger when they walked abroad, a lighting-up of the face whenthey met each other, or when the subject of hunting and fishingwas introduced; an elevation of ideas, a largeness of speech, anill-concealed disdain of the petty affairs of life, such as law, medi-cine, or agriculture; and for a long time, whenever they were in-vited out, even the heavy-handed and profuse housekeepers oftheir neighborhood seemed to have sudd
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . guished from the common herd. There was a certain gallantswagger when they walked abroad, a lighting-up of the face whenthey met each other, or when the subject of hunting and fishingwas introduced; an elevation of ideas, a largeness of speech, anill-concealed disdain of the petty affairs of life, such as law, medi-cine, or agriculture; and for a long time, whenever they were in-vited out, even the heavy-handed and profuse housekeepers oftheir neighborhood seemed to have suddenly become close andthrifty, or to have made some unaccountable mistake in their cal-culations. In the town of M were several returned Californians who had made the overland trip, dug gold and starved on the Yubaand Feather Rivers, and return-ed to their homes by the Hornor the Isthmus, with nothing toshow for their trouble but astock of hard-earned experience,and the hope of being heroes andstory-tellers for the rest of theirdays. Alas! they happened inan unlucky time. Whenever oneof them, thinking he had an au-. CALIFOENIANS TRUMPED. THE HEROES OF CANAAN. 51 dience in a bar-room or at a street corner, would commence in-fandum renovare dolor cm, he was invariably trumped with, Yes,that reminds me of the Blackwater; and in five minutes timethe poor Californian would stand mute and abashed at supposingthat he had ever been hungry in his life, or had ever seen any thingworth talking about. THE ADVENTURES OF PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS. THE ADVENTURES OFPORTE CRAYOI AND HIS COUSINS. CHAPTER I. THE ADVENTURERS. Who loues to line at home, yet looke ahroad,And know both passen and unpassen road,The wonders of a faire and goodlie land,Of antres, rivers, rocks, and mountaines grande,Kead this Thomas Macaenesse, Miss Fanny Crayon had just finished reading the foregoingnarrative to a brace of attentive and delighted cousins, when,throwing the book upon the table with a pouting air, she
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