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Show 138 ~ NATIONAL WAGON ROAD GUIDE. upon circumstances. If you have a family, and possess a competence, or even a comfortable living from your farm or occupation, laying by a ~ittle every year, and with all the endearments and enjoyments that a cherished hon1e, reliable friends ·and society ca:n throw around you, and you are not yet seized or fevered by that spirit of adventurous enterprise, so common to our countrymen as to be almost a characteristic, just stay "'There you are ; " let well enough alone." But, if having a family, and by misfortune or otherwise, find yourself without occupation or n1oney, and your friends cannot assist you in starting ane,v· in business, and the strength of your manhood, you still feel a desire and pride, in making the effort to be yet the architect of your own fortune, under a change of circumstances and chances, and with the fever of adventure rankling in your veins, and you can raise money enough to get yourself and family here, and are certain that when you shall have arrived, that you will be ready and willing to take hold of any honorable employment that offers, and you are all healthy and strong, COME RIGHT ALONG. If you are a young man and unmarried, but know of a girl that you love very much, and you are both old enough to get married~ either stay at home yourself, or if you come, bring her along with you, as it will be very likely to save you much anxiety, three or four gold rings and no little postage, and probably the expenses of a - trip home to get her after all. And besides the reasons I APPENDIX. 139 given, just see how you will be getting on without her. DONT HE WANT A WIFE? All weakly or siekly persons, had better remain among their friends; unless they have money, and come to California to regain their health, by a change of climate. Young men or old, desirous of acting in the capacity of clerks, or agents for business houses or firms, unless by the aid of friends you have secured your place before reaching here, and are in paying situations at home, hold on where you are ; every place here is filled, and there are ten anxious expectants for every situation of the kind, likely to be vacated. But to the strong young man, possessing the determination to do, or die, willing to meet and brave disappointment should it come upon him, and can reach here with |