At the end of three years he found that he did not like farming life in California,--and he found also that he did not like his uncle.

So he returned to England, but on returning was altogether unable to get his L6,000 out of the Californian farm.

Indeed he had been compelled to come away without any of it, with funds insufficient even to take him home, accepting with much dissatisfaction an assurance from his uncle that an income amounting to ten per cent.

upon his capital should be remitted to him with the regularity of clockwork.

The clock alluded to must have been one of Sam Slick's.