This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... somebody in particular? '49. Somebody in particular? You are pure California gold and twenty-four carats fine. But, come, let us all now go back to the States. Col. B. And buy the Astor House, bar and all? '49. And buy the Astor House, bar and all, Billy. But first you must learn this: That success is only a question ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ... somebody in particular? '49. Somebody in particular? You are pure California gold and twenty-four carats fine. But, come, let us all now go back to the States. Col. B. And buy the Astor House, bar and all? '49. And buy the Astor House, bar and all, Billy. But first you must learn this: That success is only a question of time and toil. And so may you, and all, strike it yet, as rich as this California gold. Curtain. CAST OF CHARACTERS. HANK MONK.--The famous stage-driver; "always on time." EBENEZER OFENHOFFER.--An honest but not very brilliant young man from the Alps. TOM CRABTREE.--The genteel gambler. "Gentlemen, I always have four hands: my right hand, my left hand, the hand that has been dealt to me, and the hand up my sleeve; I never lose a game." SAILOR BILL.--An old salt with "foul weather round the Horn." SQUIRE BROWN.--"This must be looked into, as the man said when he fell in the well; and, gentlemen, the law is--well, the law is law!" ROSIE LANE.--"The Rose of the Sierras." NORA MALONE.--An Irish emigrant. TALLY-HO ACT I. Scene: The Sierras; snow peaks, fiat. Climbing stage-road through pines and over precipices. Mining camp. Practical derrick for hoisting and swinging rocks, fallen trees for seats, a stump for a table, picks, shovels, etc. Bags to represent gray and white quartz to be hoisted by derrick. Discovered Tom Crabtree and Pilot Bill--Bill smoking a pipe. Crabtree. Bah! That rank pipe of yours makes me feel ill. Bill. Can't be helped. (Smokes more.) Crabtree. I wonder you can stand it. I can't. Bill. Stand something better then. I won't quarrel with you for it. Crabtree. There, take this cigar. (Business of selecting a doubtful one.) Bill. All right! But I'll bet it's the poorest in the ...
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San Francisco: Whitaker and Ray Co. 1909 First Edition.
Published:
1909
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8090064339
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Good. No Dj. Book 12 mo. navy cloth, rubbed. Hinges reinforced. Ex lib. copy but in good reading condition. First edition. 216 pp. rare book. Frontis of Miller and others taken in early 1900's. Has: the sea of fire, the ship in the desert, isles of the Amazons, an Indian summer, from sea to sea, a song of the south, resurgo San Francisco, the last great San Francisco fire.