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the noble Live Oak, the kindly Blue Oak, the proud Black Oak, and the quaint Digger Pine. These then are our most conspicuous trees of valley and canyon in a land that boasts not much woodland. (See vol. 2, p. 59.) -Trees of the Pellejo Hills. Men and Manners, 14:145.
Cont. [continued] from p. 60 out the earth into fine dust blown away by the mind under the years. Men also came into the village to loaf and drink at the saloons, leaving their patient hours without food or water tied to the hitching racks until far into the night _ their owners gambling and drinking.
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