And there you see my piggies's pens.
This yard holds in the lively hens.
This is the garden, where I hoe
My plants; and here the flowers grow.
These sticks are pines, so straight, so tall
And dark. But these aren't half of all
The things I make each pleasant day
Out in the sand bed where I play.
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA, IN 1842
A view of the town as it was before the "Gringo" came. Four years later during the Mexican War Commodore Stockton captured Monterey and left Walter Colton, a naval chaplain, in charge as Alcalde.
[A JUDGE LINDSEY OF THE "IDLE FORTIES"]
LAURA B. EVERETT