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"Let's go over to the southeast corner and see if we can find that stake 

 which Reynolds said he had driven there." 



"Goon! go on !" says Fletcher ; "I'll walk." 



We drove over to the stake. It was a very warm day ; and after we 

 had waited an hour, Mr. Fletcher, who carried a good deal of extra flesh, 

 came up with his coat off, puffing and wiping the perspiration from his 

 cheeks, and exclaimed, " Gentlemen, iVs all here ! il' s all here /" 



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JUDGE B. S. EATON, 1895. 

 See foot-note, page ]2S. 



" You won't plow it up, then, in a week with your Hoosier steers !" I 

 said, laughing". 



" Well ! well !" he answered, " who ever saw a country so deceiving in 

 its appearances !" 



At another time the same party were coming up the Arroyo Seco 

 road from lyOS Angeles, when Fletcher, who was always inclined to chaff 



