“In Monterey the squid they sayis tender as baloney.But here I’ll pound a little round
of tough old abalone.”George Sterling was Bohemian,bright leader of a cliquethat ran the San Francisco scene
with literature and art.“Some stick to biz, some flirt with Lizdown on the sands of Coney.But we, by hell, stay in Carmel
and beat our abalone.”Sterling’s verse caused such a stirhis buddy Ambrose Bierce,a writer with connections fedhis work to Cosmopolitan.