Now don't you tell on me.

Good-bye." I saw him no more after that.
The town of San Jose was now more of a town than it was a few years before.

The "Forty Thieves," and others, commenced building a city hall of brick on the top of old adobe walls, and this was the principal improvement, except the Moody mill near the Sutter house, one street north of Julian.
After finishing work on the mill I drew my money from the bank in San Francisco and started for the mines on horseback.

Near French Camp, on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley, many cattle were feeding on the plains, and among them, much to my surprise I found "Old Crump," the ox that brought Bennett's and Arcane's children safe through from Death Valley in February, 1850.

He was now fat and sleek and as kind and gentle as when so poor upon the terrible journey.