[Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff]@TWC D-Link bookNorthern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands CHAPTER V 25/34
He gave her two five-dollar gold pieces, and, to his amazement, saw her hand them over immediately, one to a little girl and one to a boy, who had evidently come to get the money--not for her use at all.
A cook in my own family asked for the wages due him, which he had been saving for some time; he received forty-four dollars, and gave the whole amount at once to his father-in-law, who had come from another island on purpose to get this money.
Nor was it grudged to him, so far as any of us could see.
"By-and-by, if we are poor and in need, they will do as much for us," is the excuse. As you ride along in the country, you will see your guide slyly putting a stone or a bunch of grass on a ledge near some precipice.
If you look, you will see other objects of the same kind lying there.
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