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 cept in so far as they were attached to the already mentioned enthusiasms, and were clarified and directed by the influence of my mother and sisters. Of boys outside the household I so far knew comparatively little, but had a considerable tendency, as I remember, to preach down to what I supposed to be the level of these other boys, — a predisposition which did not prepare me for social success in the place in which I was destined to pass the next stage of my development, namely San Francisco.

When we went to live in San Francisco, I for the first time saw, first San Francisco Bay, and then the Ocean itself, which fascinated me, but which for a long time taught me little.

About June, 1866, 1 began to attend a large Grammar School in San Francisco. I was one of about a thousand boys. The ways of training were new to me. My comrades , very generally found me disagreeably striking in my appearance, by reason of the fact that I was redheaded, freckled, countrified,