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HIS FIRST ADMINISTRATION

"Whether it was the loss of their funds, or the moving-pictures that turned the trick, we were not destined to learn. For on the seventh day a little vermin-infested tub poked her nose into the harbor, and we all shipped for San José, where we picked up some civilized rags and caught a 'Frisco steamer.