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The gloomy anticipations with which the gold discoveries had been regarded by the squatters and employers of labour were by no means realised; for though men were for a time scarce, and wages exceedingly high, yet, when the real nature of a gold-digger's life and the meagreness of the average earnings became apparent, the great majority of the miners returned to their ordinary employments and the colony resumed its former career of steady progress, though with this difference, that the population was greater, and business consequently brisker than it had ever been before.
Harry put his foot on one yesterday, but got no hurt. They are not easily seen, and their bite is always fatal. "From all this you will see that a gold-digger's life is a hard one, and worse than that, it does not pay well. However, I like it in the meantime, and having taken it up, I shall certainly give it a fair trial. "I wish you were here, Tommy; yet I am glad you are not.
To my belief, that gully is the top dressing of a dried up underground watercourse. It's a pocket chock full of gold. You see, it's like this: Here followed technical details given in local gold-digger's phraseology which would only be intelligible to a backwoods prospector or a Leichardt's Land mining expert.
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