In Virginia City he mingled with the turmoil of theComstock and set down what he saw and thought, in his native speech. They began to suspect that the sport was notaltogether safe. Well, it was worth a try. Up to that time he was just Little Sam, a child--wild,and mischievous, often exasperating, but still a child--a delicate littlelad to be worried over, mothered, or spanked and put to bed.
They were accepted--without payment, of course,in those days; and when the papers containing them appeared he feltsuddenly lifted to a lofty plane of literature. The hour was early whenJudge Clemens got up to saddle his horse, and Little Sam was stillasleep. displeasure of various individuals whose cause naturallyenough had been espoused by a rival paper, the Chronicle. None of us had got much sleep; it had been impossible for anyone to seek repose until I brought the news that Selim had survived the operation.
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