. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. ,-:^ ;> ^^fl- % A- -^l :. 16 RECKLESS ABANDONMENT OF PROPERTY. tages of the organization, while wholly relieved of itsduties and inconveniences. I may here relate a trifling incident illustrative of aconspicuous feature of the plains that season. We hadnot been out many da}S beyond the confines of ci\ili-zation, when, in a stroll some distance from*the train,I discovered a good w^agon tire. Such reckless aban-donment of property was something new to me. I rolledthe val-u a b 1 e

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