. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. -evidences of similar sad expe-riences. I must myself haNccut a hidicrous, if not a pitia- ? ble, figure, as I went plashingalong through the rain and mud and shish, with m\- bhuik-ets ()\ er me, m^ boots acrossm\- shoulder, m\ pants i-ollcd. KMT MY r,AST IWO-BITS. 83 up to my kncc-s. n\y white wool hat <4()iic to seed clown-Inshioii, ami in\ riads ol clucks, ijeese, and hiants qiiawk-iiiLi and tla])}iinL: theii winirs o\ er ni\ head. But,— ?Come what come may,Tiiiu- and the liotir runs through the roughest d
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. -evidences of similar sad expe-riences. I must myself haNccut a hidicrous, if not a pitia- ? ble, figure, as I went plashingalong through the rain and mud and shish, with m\- bhuik-ets ()\ er me, m^ boots acrossm\- shoulder, m\ pants i-ollcd. KMT MY r,AST IWO-BITS. 83 up to my kncc-s. n\y white wool hat <4()iic to seed clown-Inshioii, ami in\ riads ol clucks, ijeese, and hiants qiiawk-iiiLi and tla])}iinL: theii winirs o\ er ni\ head. But,— ?Come what come may,Tiiiu- and the liotir runs through the roughest day. The .\meiiean Ri\ er was at length reached. It tookm\ last two-bits—a dime and a Spanish shilling—forfeniaij,e: so that I entered Sacramento in a worsepiedicament than Doctor Franklins when he enteredPhiladelphia,—had no pennies for loa^?es, to say noth-ing of a whistle.
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