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We was here with Pitcairn yesterday. Somebody's took away our location-posts." "You take me for a cheechalko?" she screamed, and her blue eyes flashed like smitten steel. She pulled up her sweater and felt in her belt. "You take your stakes out! Put mine back, unless you want " A murderous-looking revolver gleamed in her hand. "Hold on!" said the spokesman hurriedly. "Can't you take a joke?"
Still, he may do as he lists. But your cheechalko why, this is the hour of his initiation. It was as if a man should yawn at his marriage or refuse to sleep at his funeral. The offenders were some of those Woodworth fellows, who, with a dozen or so others, had built shacks below "the street" yet well above the river. At two in the morning Sour-dough Saunders knocked them up.
But nothing of the kind. The Nigger dog said as plain as speech could make it: "You cheechalko person, you look as if you're actually offering me that fish in good faith. But I'd be a fool to think so." The stranger spoke low and quietly. They talked for some time. The owner of the two had shuffled off home again, with Spotty and Red at his heels.
I wouldn't stay here and work this way and live this way another winter, not for twenty millions." "I'm surprised to hear you talking like that, sah." "Well, you won't be once you have tried it yourself. Mining up here's an awful gamble. Colours pretty well everywhere, and a few flakes of flour gold, just enough to send the average cheechalko crazy, but no real 'pay' outside of this little gulch.
"Shamán say Holy Cross all right. Cheechalko no good; Cheechalko bring devils; Cheechalko all same him," he wound up, flinging subterfuge to the winds, and openly indicating his faithless ambassador. "Strikes me I'm gettin' the worst of this argument all round. Brother Paul's been sailing into me on pretty much the same tack."
"McGinty strikes me as a very decent sort of man, with a knowledge of practical mining and of mining law " Maudie made a low sound of impatience, and pushed her empty glass aside. "Oh, very well, go your own way! Waste the whole spring doin' Si's assessment for him. And when the bottom drops out o' recordin', you'll see Si gettin' some cheechalko to buy an interest in that rottin' hole o' his "
But even if he chose to pretend that he didn't want cheechalko tobacco, it was very serious it was desperate to see all that Black Jack going on to the next village. Several of the hitherto silent bucks remonstrated with Peetka even one of the women dared raise her voice. She had not been able to go for fish: where was her tobacco and tea? Peetka burst into voluble defence of his position.
He turned to the Colonel: "You'll get over trying to wear cheechalko boots here nothing like mucklucks with a wisp of straw inside for this country." "I agree wid ye. I got me a pair in St. Michael's," says O'Flynn proudly, turning out his enormous feet. "Never wore anything so comf'table in me life." "You ought to have drill parkis too, like this of mine, to keep out the wind."
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