The
chief steward was thoughtful for a time, and finally said, "Well, yes,
I believe there is. We haven't any one to peel vegetables yet, and if
you think you care to do that work I guess we can fix you up all
right." Archie didn't wait to consider whether peeling vegetables was
hard work or not. He was too glad to have a position of any kind
aboard ship to be particular about what his work was like, so he told
the steward that he was willing to take the place. "Well, be on hand
at about eight in the morning, and we'll see that you get to
Honolulu."
Archie was overjoyed at his good management. "I am going to save about
a hundred dollars," he said to himself, "and I will have this money to
send home to mother." The rest of the afternoon and the evening he
spent in going about San Francisco, and he found it to be more like
New York than any city he had yet seen. There was the same
cosmopolitan crowd on the main thoroughfares, and the same foreign
districts here and there throughout the city. He found a great deal to
interest him, especially at the Presidio, where everything connected
with the army monopolised his attention. He made friends with many of
the soldiers who were waiting to be sent to the Philippines, and
hoped, on leaving, that he would meet some of them there, but he
hardly expected that he would meet some of them in such a strange
manner as it was his fate to do in Luzon.
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