Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


The Abalone Eaters, in two rigs and on a number of horses,
descended in force on Bierce's Cove. There were half a score of
men and almost as many women. All were young, between the ages of
twenty-five and forty, and all seemed good friends. Most of them
were married. They arrived in a roar of good spirits, tripping
one another down the slippery trail and engulfing Saxon and Billy
in a comradeship as artless and warm as the sunshine itself.
Saxon was appropriated by the girls--she could not realize them
women; and they made much of her, praising her camping and
traveling equipment and insisting on hearing some of her tale.
They were experienced campers themselves, as she quickly
discovered when she saw the pots and pans and clothes-boilers for
the mussels which they had brought.

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