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STANISLAUS GAMBLERS. 437:
dstance, and seating themselves in a circle on the
J ground gravely discuss matters. One after another
they then went to the store and made their purchases,
returning afterward to their place in the circle. And
ther method of barter was frequently in this wise:
Upon a leaf, or piece of paper, one would pour out
pethaps a teaspoonful of gold-dust, and taking it to
J the shopkeeper, point to the article desired and ejacuPate, ugh! which being nepal meant, “I will
. sug n’s respectability that he shelf # give you this for that. f the shopkeeper took it,
te ate many © ee tat ‘passed through life most fells if he refused it the Indian bees withdraw, .inwithout attempting any species of homicide. A man came to me as bebo, the nile of dust a ake ‘ tl 7
didate for the place of my servant, just then vacant. He had the gee erease pue of dust, and return, repeating the op
of having dabbled a little eek pi see ee er he pawv al ie eration until the amount was large enough to procure
a ee “New that was a thing T would not allow. Sofa Wf the article. Again, if it was biscuits they desired, of
at once, ‘if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes tw which a teaspoonful of dust in the days of ? 48, woul d
think little of robbing’; and from robbing he comes next to. drinking aul
Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Oncele§ bay but half a dozen, and they wanted several dozen,
gin upon this downward path younover know where you are to sisPMMH they would go and come, never at any one time bring.
® man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thoagit , Pigs g
Naieeh at te tm ng more than the first measure of dust, receiving six
ach time until they had secured all they required, or
util their dust was gone.
: xican sera g
purchasing power of gold, but they cil nae Hae Beri ces di ee oh took his hem Pech
b edy of it like their white brethren. Whea eger, y mi ecome ee sack of flour,’or a few pounds of tej In the absence of a serape, however, an American
ea oe : bottle of brandy, some of them went t Wanket would do, and for this, of a quality worth $4
the river and washed out the gold necessary for K
purchases. They were badly cheated at first, having
no knowledge of the value white men put upon the
metal, and they would as readily give a handful of it
as a smaller quantity, if they had it, for wha
struck their fancy, something to eat, or to drink,
gaudy handkerchief, or a garment. .
Time and intercourse with the more cunning rae
sharpened their wits a little. Then they adopted a
method of their own in making purchases, In parties
of five or ten they would first stroll through the stor,
carefully observe several articles, and settle in ther
own mind what they would buy, but saying noth
to the shop-keeper. Then they would retire to a
CHAPTER XIX.
SOME INDIAN EPISODES.
worns, and had paraded the forests as naked as Adam
m the garden, were arrayed in gorgeous apparel costhandkerchiefs, hat, shirt, pantaloons, and blanket or
xrape. For food, in place of acorns and mashed grasshoppers, they purchased almonds and raisins at $16 a
pound; and for a bottle of whiskey they pad $16.
While the Reverend Mr Colton was playing miner
m the Stanislaus, in the autumn of 1848, there came
tohis camp three wild men, attracted thither by a
rd belt which each of them wanted; so they first
bought it and then gambled to see which should have
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wr $5, they cheerfully paid Weber, the Coloma~
shopkeeper, $100. Before the end of 1848 thousandssavages, who up to that had lived on roots and
ing $500, conspicuous in which was gaudy calico, red ©
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