Author: Leopold Ernest Wyneken

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-24

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780483837201

Excerpt from Chronicles of Manuel Alanus: A True Story of Old San Francisco I have taken a room in a lodginghouse near the ferry landing, a nice room and with a clean bed, and a bay window looking out on the wide place in front of the big Ferry Station. But it is too expensive for me. Three dollars a week! I took it for one week; then I shall move. W' hat crowds of people there are always coming and going on the ferry - boats! And the street - cars, how they come and shift and go again like clock - work! And they and the ferryboats moving on time make, or seem to make, the people move mechanically the same way. I ate my lunch at a cheap restaurant, a short distance up the street from this place. After that I took a stroll along the water front. Some of it is changed altogether, some of it is pretty much as it was when I knew it last. The lumber-yards, which formerly extended to the water, are all gone. There is a wide quay with houses fronting on it and wharves opposite running out into the bay, with big and little vessels lying at them, facing the houses. All contain stores and shops. I bought this writing-book and some ink and pens at a stationer's and came back to my room to write. In prison I got accustomed to write, till it has become a con firmed habit. I feel strange, yet not so very strange. It almost seems as if I in reality, had never left the city, had never been away shut up all these many long years in prison. A boy when I entered the prison, and what but a boy now! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.