Identifier: mountainsmolehil00marr (find matches)
Title: Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Marryat, Frank, 1826-1855
Subjects: Marryat, Frank, 1826-1855
Publisher: London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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office with a helmet on hishead, and proceed at full speed to his engine house. Sometimes some poor fellow loses his life in hisexertions to perform his self-imposed duty, and thenhis brother firemen, in unassumed grief, pay him thelast tribute of respect by following his body to thecemetery. I have introduced such a scene in the sketch ofSan Francisco, and would draw attention simply tothe deep significance of the motto on the banner thatis lying low, emblematical of him they are burying— We strive to save. There is no boast, no ostentation in these words, novainglorious confidence in what shall be done, noallusion to victories gained or deeds performed. Lookon the motto, * We strive to save ; now look onthe coffin that contains all that is mortal of one whounder that banner has found a death as worthy of thelaurel as any soldier who at once brings pride andsorrow to the nation in whose cause fighting inch byinch he yields up life. You and I, reader, can sleep comfortably in our p
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WE STRIVE TO SAVE. 345 beds, and have no cause each, night to be drenchedby water and scorched by heat, no bell summons usto duty, nor need we risk life or limb when the glareascends from a blazing manxifactory, but turning com-fortably over, we can again court sleep with theintention of reading of the fire over our breakfasttable. But you will agree with me, perhaps, that be Avewhere we will, be our powers what they may, if welook around us we shall find no better standard torally round and be faithful to than that which bearsthe firemans motto, We strive to save 7^: 7^ ^ ^ Gorgeous decoration is characteristic of SanFrancisco; the people pay high prices for thenecessaries of life, so velvet and gilt work is throwninto the bargain. In the shaving-saloons thissystem of internal decoration is carried out in greatforce, and the accommodation these establishmentsafford is indispensable to a Californian public. Let me suppose myself to have arrived at SanFrancisco from the mines early one

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