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It was a poor little decaying mining-town set against the hillside, and had but one hotel, a sun-warped and sagging pine building just above the station. "Not much like the Profile House," said Wayland, as he drew up to the porch. "But I see no choice." "There isn't any," Berrie assured him. "Well, now," he went on, "I am in command of this expedition. From this on I lead this outfit.
"New York is politically a mediaeval Italian republic, and it's morally a frontier mining-town. Socially it's " He stopped as if he could not say what. "I think it's a place where you have a very nice time, papa," said his daughter, and Burnamy smiled with her; not because he knew anything about it. Her father went on as if he had not heard her. "It's as vulgar and crude as money can make it.
"New York is politically a mediaeval Italian republic, and it's morally a frontier mining-town. Socially it's " He stopped as if he could not say what. "I think it's a place where you have a very nice time, papa," said his daughter, and Burnamy smiled with her; not because he knew anything about it. Her father went on as if he had not heard her. "It's as vulgar and crude as money can make it.
Blake and the child lived in a fair degree of comfort upon the mother's wages, but often the mother shuddered at thought of what might happen should she ever lose her position at the photographer's. Consumption had its hold on Busted Blake when he arrived in the mining-town called Get-there City, in Kansas, one evening.
And there was nothing in the little mining-town which could disturb their happiness. She bore him two boys, but he was always wishing for a girl. And at last a fair-haired baby girl arrived. She was the apple of his eye, and as she grew up she resembled her mother more and more. When she was eight years old, she was just what her mother had been.
I was anxious to get some fresh eggs as a change to the heavy diet of a mining-town; and, knowing that Wan Lee's countrymen were great poultry-raisers, I applied to him. He furnished me with them regularly every morning, but refused to take any pay, saying that the man did not sell them, a remarkable instance of self-abnegation, as eggs were then worth half a dollar apiece.
They had lived in the camp since its foundation in 1849; there seemed to be no reason why they should not remain there until its inevitable evolution into a mining-town. The younger members might leave through restless ambition or a desire for change or novelty; they were subject to no such trifling mutation. Yet Cedar Camp was surprised one day to hear that Uncle Billy was going away.
They had alighted from the cars at a way-station, and were walking along the platform toward the tallyho coach which was waiting for them. Lucy was firmly impressed with the idea that they were starting for the gold mines. The truth was, they were on their way to an old mining-town high up in the Cuyamaca Mountains, called Castle Cliff; but there had been no gold there for a great many years. Mr.
Murphy's camp is a curious old mining-town in Calaveras County, at an elevation of 2400 feet above the sea, situated like a nest in the center of a rough, gravelly region, rich in gold.
By day, Cumberland is quite given over to carbon: drawing her supplies from the neighboring mining-town of Frostburg, she dedicates herself devoutly to coals. All day long she may be seen winding around her sooty neck, like an African queen, endless chains and trains and rosaries of black diamonds, which never tire of passing through the enumeration of her jeweled fingers.
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