It was not a luxurious meal, but, compared with the major's rather frugal table, there was great variety and luxury.

Joe did justice to it.
"Folks live better in the city than they do in the country," he thought; "but, then, they have to pay for it.

A dollar a day! Why, that would make three hundred and sixty-five dollars a year!" This to Joe seemed a very extravagant sum to spend on one person's board and lodging.
"Now," thought Joe, after dinner was over, "the first thing for me to find out is when the California steamer starts and what is the lowest price I can go for." In the barroom Joe found a file of two of the New York daily papers, and began to search for the advertisement of the California steamers.
At last he found it.
The steamer was to start in three days.

Apply for passage and any information at the company's offices.
"I'll go right down there, and find out whether I've got money enough to take me," Joe decided..