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DAWN AND THE DONS 216 out of local hostilities engendered by Fremont’s unwelcome visit and the Bear Flag incident. Many cascarone balls were given in the old Larkin home. The character and the cost of one of these social functions is shown by Larkin’s carefully and systematically kept accounts: “Two dozen bottles wine, $19. One and a half dozen bottles of beer, $13.50. Thirty pies, $13. Cake, $12. Box of raisins, $4. Cheese, $1.50. Nine bottles of aguardiente (whiskey), $13.50. Music, $25. Nine pounds of sperm candles, $9. Five pounds of sugar, $3. Other eatables, $5. Servants, $4.” Like all Gaul, these expenses may be divided into three parts: wine, beer and whiskey, $46; pies, cake, raisins, cheese, sugar and other eatables, $38.50, and music, lighting and servants, $38; a total of 122.50 for an evening’s entertainment.

Near the Larkin house is the old adobe, also built by, Larkin, where General Sherman, then Lieutenant Sher- man, had his headquarters in 1847. Over on Alvarado Street, Monterey’s principal thoroughfare, was the Sherman Rose cottage, since removed to another part of town to make way for a bank building. Around this cottage has been woven a legend that has persisted through the years. As the story runs, the brilliant young American Lieutenant fell in love with the fascinating dark eyed Senorita Maria Ygnacio Bonifacio, daughter of a proud Spanish family, who reciprocated the affections of the blue eyed American. Calling to make his final adieus before taking his departure for the east, where he had been ordered, he presented a rose to the Sefiorita which