hysterical trading in feed had become less intense as sober speculators turned to more reliable investments and reckless plungers were cleaned out. the daily reports from SF about notices of diminishing assessments on mining stock was sobering for those who paid attention. MTIVC pg 139 they had tried to go to bed but Hurdy-Gurdy music was playing in the street and kept them up, so they ran out and found the source, a Hurdy-Gurdy basement and they danced with 3 girls (Ward, Sam, Dan) adn then they met up with a bulky stovepipe hatted Sonora miner called Kettle-belly Browne who stared down a bartender who had tried to shortchange him and then joined the trio in a new round of barhopping that eneded up at down outside of Aaron Hooper’s saloon