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And, to cap it all, when "Lucky" Richard Forrest had lost everything in a series of calamities, so that San Francisco debated what price his Nob Hill palace would fetch at auction, he grubstaked one, Del Nelson, to a prospecting in Mexico As soberly set down in history, the result of the said Del Nelson's search for quartz was the Harvest Group, including the fabulous and inexhaustible Tattlesnake, Voice, City, Desde, and Yellow Boy claims Del Nelson, astounded by his achievement, within the year drowned himself in an enor incontestible through lack of kith and kin, left his half to Lucky Richard Forrest

Dick Forrest was the son of his father Lucky Richard, a h twice married and ted, had not been blessed with children His third ht, and in 1874, although he lost the ed, rei Dick was precocious Lucky Richard was a de Dick learned in a year from a private teacher ould have required three years in the gra in the open air Also, result of precocity of son and derammar school for the last year in order to learn shoulder-rubbing dehters of workmen, tradesmen, saloon-keepers and politicians

In class recitation or spellingwith Patsy Halloran, the y whose father was a hod-carrier, nor with Mona Sanguinetti as a wizard at spelling and whose ed etable store Nor were his father's htest assistance to Young Dick when he peeled his jacket and, bareknuckled, without rounds, licking or being licked, milled it to a finish with Jimmy Botts, Jean Choyinsky, and the rest of the lads that went out over the world to glory and cash a few years later, a generation of prizefighters that only San Francisco, raw and virile and yeasty and young, could have produced

The wisest thing Lucky Richard did for his boy was to give hi Dick never forgot that he lived in a palace of many servants and that his father was aDick learned two-legged, two-fisted deuinetti spelled hied and out-ran hi across in Black Man