But the Irishwoman who had come out on the Governor's staff charged the menagerie only ten dollars a week apiece for board and lodging.

Orion and I were of her boarders and lodgers; and so, on these cheap terms the silver I had brought from home held out very well.
[Sidenote: ('62 or '63)] At first I roamed about the country seeking silver, but at the end of '62 or the beginning of '63 when I came up from Aurora to begin a journalistic life on the Virginia City "Enterprise," I was presently sent down to Carson City to report the legislative session.

Orion was soon very popular with the members of the legislature, because they found that whereas they couldn't usually trust each other, nor anybody else, they could trust him.

He easily held the belt for honesty in that country, but it didn't do him any good in a pecuniary way, because he had no talent for either persuading or scaring legislators.

But I was differently situated.