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It means that papa has had another reverse; it means that the assay has turned out badly for the mine that the further they go from the flat the worse it gets that all the gold they will probably ever see at Devil's Ford is what they have already found or will find on the flat; it means that all Devil's Ford is only a 'pocket, and not a 'lead." She stopped, with unexpected tears in her eyes.
She went to see her folks half a year after she was married, and on her way back, on a Saturday evening, the Indians captured her within five miles of this place, and she's never been heard of since." "And he lost his mind in consequence?" "Never has been sane an hour since. But he only gets bad when that time of year comes round.
There's some purty fine women in this town that ain't picked up yet, but they won't last long, they way they're goin'. Somebody gets married every couple of months." Eliph' looked up with a smile. Jim Wilkins did not know he had advised the very thing he meant to do. "I've thought some about it," said Eliph', "'most everybody's getting married now-a-days."
Of course, if the enemy gets tired of "searching" the countryside for our guns and takes to "searching" our trenches instead, we lose all interest in the proceedings, and retire to our dug-outs, hoping that no direct hits will come our way. But guns are notoriously erratic in their time-tables, and fickle in their attentions.
Bob Short puts it up he'd bet a hundred dollars even Mace gets one of 'em; a hundred to two hundred he gets two, an' a hundred to five hundred he gets 'em all; an' some short-kyard sharp who's up from Socorro, after figgerin' it all silent to himse'f, takes 'em all. "'Now I don't reckon, stranger, says Benson, sorter reproachful, to the short-kyard party, 'you knows Mace Bowman mighty well?
I don't know what to think of Amundsen's chances. If he gets to the Pole, it must be before we do, as he is bound to travel fast with dogs and pretty certain to start early. On this account I decided at a very early date to act exactly as I should have done had he not existed. Any attempt to race must have wrecked my plan, besides which it doesn't appear the sort of thing one is out for.
Frequent sighing to get rid of it; heaviness of head; depression of the whole nervous system under the influence of the poison of the lungs; and when the poor child gets up from her weary work, what is the first thing she probably does?
Morrison nodded his head understandingly, a fine light of appreciation in his eyes, "Not to be afraid of fear that's splendid." Sylvia went on to particularize. "When any of us are sick it's my little brother Lawrence who is mostly Judith and I are always well Father just goes all to pieces, he gets so frightened.
He drinks too much whiskey for his own good; but he knows all the ports on the Gulf of Mexico, and he gets in or out in face of the blockaders every time," answered Percy with enthusiasm. "Did he never lose a vessel?"
He who makes a discovery rich in results certainly enjoys the greatest of human felicities; but even he who merely "understands" gets a lofty enjoyment which will rise superior to and overcome the most acute suffering.
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