He guessed two miles wider of the mark than I did. I reckon I'll take that money, if you please. Well, Smith is dead. And when he died he wasn't worth a cent. The history of California will prove this to your entire satisfaction.
Sudden wealth is an awful misfortune to the average run of men.
I haven't had any luck so far. All the early pioneers of California acquired more or less wealth, but an enormous majority of them have not got any now. Those that have, got it slowly and by patient toil. I believe its shares are still quoted in the stock sales in the New York papers. And he said that Gould sold out for a pair of second-hand government blankets and a bottle of whiskey that killed nine men in three hours, and that an unoffending stranger that smelt the cork was disabled for life.