"To Be Sure I Do," He Exclaimed, "I Went To His
School, And," Laughing Heartily, "Well I Remember A Licking He Gave Me!"
He Said That Among The Boys Who Attended That School, Several In After
Years, As Men, Had Become Prominent In The History Of The State.
Mr. Beatty - now a pleasant, genial gentleman of fifty-two - very kindly
walked with me to the brow of
The hill commanding a view of Sucker Flat,
and pointed out the exact spot where the school had stood, for not a
stick or a stone remains to mark the locus of the town - it is simply a
name upon the map.
I mention this incident as being another proof of the extraordinary hold
the Sierra foot-hill country has upon the people who were born there, as
well as upon those who have drifted there by force of circumstances. It
is forty-six or forty-seven years since my father conducted that school,
yet I felt so sure from previous experiences there would be in
Smartsville someone who remembered him, that I determined to include it
in my itinerary.
Chapter VIII
Smartsville to Marysville. Some Reflections on Automobiles and "Hoboes"
Early the next morning I started for Marysville, the last leg in my
journey, and a long twenty miles distant. I had been dreading the pull
through the Sacramento Valley, having a lively recollection of my
experience in the San Joaquin, on leaving Stockton. The day was sultry,
making the heat still more oppressive.
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