THE COUNTRY BOY
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father thought perhaps the twenty-dollar gold piece I was taking with me had better not be carried in my
pants pocket. So, owing to certain differences between San Francisco and Silverton, they thought it best to have me step behind the door and take off my coat and vest and shirt while they put the gold piece in a patch on my underclothes. They sewed it so that it practically lay on my right shoulder-blade, so that by mov-
