 ... no other cause, ran last night ; and this morning, for the fortieth time, we had to take to the kitchen, and cook our own breakfast. A general of the United States Army, the commander of a man-of-war, and the Alcalde of Monterey, in a smoking kitchen,...  Three Years in California - Seite 246von Walter Colton - 1852 - 456 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Walter Colton - 1860 - 476 Seiten
...if no other cause, ran last night ; and this morning, for the fortieth time, we had to take to ifcfe kitchen, and cook our own breakfast. A general of...blows nobody any good : the nabobs have had their time^and now comes that of the " niggers." We shall all live just as long, and be quite as fit to die.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 Seiten
...and the Alcalde of Monterey, in a smoking kitchen, grinding coffee, toasting a herring, and peeling onions! These gold mines are going to upset all the domestic arrangements of society, turning the VOL. v.—30 head to the tail, and the tail to the head. "Well, it is an ill wind that blows nobody... | |
 | 1897 - 664 Seiten
...and the Alcalde of Monterey, in a smoking kitchen, grinding coffee, toasting a herring, and peeling onions ! These gold mines are going to upset all the...turning the head to the tail, and the tail to the head. " Tuesday, July 18. Another bag of gold from the mines, and another spasm in the community. It was... | |
 | 1897 - 658 Seiten
...and the Alcalde of Monterey, in a smoking kitchen, grinding coffee, toasting a herring, and peeling onions ! These gold mines are going to upset all the...turning the head to the tail, and the tail to the head. " Tuesday, July 18. Another bag of gold from the mines, and another spasm in the community. It was... | |
 | James Alton James - 1914 - 606 Seiten
...man-of-war, and the Alcalde of Monterey, in a smoking kitchen, grinding coffee, toasting a herring, pealing onions! These gold mines are going to upset all the domestic arrangements of society. Tuesday, July 18. — Another bag of gold from the mines, and another spasm in the community. My carpenters... | |
 | Patricia Nelson Limerick - 2000 - 392 Seiten
...and the Alcalde of Monterey, in a smoking kitchen, grinding coffee, toasting a herring, and peeling onions! These gold mines are going to upset all the...turning the head to the tail, and the tail to the head. . . . The gold mines have upset all social and domestic arrangements in Monterey; the master has become... | |
 | Patricia Nelson Limerick - 2001 - 390 Seiten
...and the Alcalde of Monterey, in a smoking kitchen, grinding coffee, toasting a herring, and peeling onions! These gold mines are going to upset all the...domestic arrangements of society, turning the head :o the tail, and the tail to the head. . . . The gold mines have upset all social and domestic arrangements... | |
| |
