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about San Francisco—a request which Mr. Fogg readily
granted.
They soon found themselves in Montgomery Street,
where a great crowd was collected; the side-walks, street,
horsecar rails, the shop-doors, the windows of the houses,
and even the roofs, were full of people. Men were going
about carrying large posters, and flags and streamers were
floating in the wind; while loud cries were heard on every
hand.
‘Hurrah for Camerfield!’
‘Hurrah for Mandiboy!’
It was a political meeting; at least so Fix conjectured,
who said to Mr. Fogg, ‘Perhaps we had better not mingle
with the crowd. There may be danger in it.’
‘Yes,’ returned Mr. Fogg; ‘and blows, even if they are
political are still blows.’
Fix smiled at this remark; and, in order to be able to see
without being jostled about, the party took up a position
on the top of a flight of steps situated at the upper end of
Montgomery Street. Opposite them, on the other side of
the street, between a coal wharf and a petroleum
warehouse, a large platform had been erected in the open
air, towards which the current of the crowd seemed to be
directed.
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