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sewed all over your clothes, but the company 

 doesn't send us out with buttonhole shears, 

 so you will have to get out your money." 



I told him he could feel of it on my back, 

 whereupon he did. Several passengers also 

 volunteered; but I had to get off the car and, 

 owing to the difference that San Francisco 

 bore to Silverton, I lost several hours it seemed, 

 hunting a suitable place that I might get to 

 this twenty. 



Finally, after I got the twenty, I went back 

 and got on another car on the turn-table, and 

 had ridden to about the same spot, when the 

 conductor came through and I gave him my 

 money. He informed me that they didn't 

 make change for over five dollars. That I 

 would have to get off and have it changed. 

 It seemed that I never would get to the 

 Murphy Building. I had gotten to San 

 Francisco about eight o'clock in the morning, 

 and now it was past noon, and I hadn't got 

 away from the ferry. I lost more time trjdng 

 to get change. Finally a man suggested that 

 I buy a cigar. I foolishly told him I didn't 

 smoke, and he suggested that I had better 

 smoke, even to get my change. 



