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Excerpt from Tales of Trail and Town
IT must be admitted that the civilising processes of Rough and Ready were not marked by any of the ameliorating conditions of other improved camps. After the discovery of the famous 'eureka' lead, there was the usual influx of gamblers and saloon-keepers - but that was accepted as a matter Of course. But it was thought hard that, after a church was built, and a new school erected, it should suddenly be found necessary to have doors that locked, instead of standing shamelessly Open to the criticism and temptation of wayfarers, or that portable property could no longer be left out at night in the Old fond reliance on universal brotherhood. The habit Of borrowing was stopped with the introduction Of more money into the camp and the establishment of rates of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
