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Other lost mines hev been found. An' as fer' the rollin' stones, I sure know thet's true, as any one can find out if he goes trailin' up the gulch. Mebbe thet's only the weatherin' of the cliffs. It's a sleepy, strange country, this Southwest, an', Miss Majesty, you're a-goin' to love it. You'll call it ro-mantic, Wal, I reckon ro-mantic is correct.
It would be just like 'em to misunderstand the whole thing and go home and get me mixed into a lot of law for assaultin' 'em." "Oh, if you're afraid to go outside, say so!" sneered Hiram. "But you've talked so much of deep water, and weatherin' Cape Horn, and " "Afraid? Me afraid?" roared the Cap'n, spatting his broad hand on his breast.
Mayhap at the first burst o' the gale you're hove on your beam-ends, an' away go the masts, leavin' ye to drift ashore or sink; or p'raps you're sharp enough to get in sail, and have all snug, when, just as ye're weatherin' a headland, away goes the sheet o' the jib, jib's blowed to ribbons, an' afore ye know where ye are, `breakers on the lee bow! is the cry.
Involuntarily Yankee Sam reached for the poker and various eyes sought the wood-box for a sizable stick of wood. "Upon what do you base your opinion?" asked Mr. Dill, taken somewhat aback. "What makes you think that?" "Because we're in it now. The weatherin' away of the surface enrichment made the placers we washed out in '61-'64."
And more than that," he continued, taking up the glass and levelling it at the Dona Inez, "I'm blest if I don't believe as we're weatherin' on her too. Take this glass, Mr Grenvile, and tell me whether you don't think as we've drawed up a bit closer to the commodore since eight bells struck."
Them rocks were rollin' all right, only it was the weatherin' of the cliffs. "An' there under the crags was a gold pocket. "Then I was worse than locoed. I went gold-crazy. I worked like seventeen burros. Bill, I dug a lot of goldbearin' quartz. Bonita watched the trails for me, brought me water. That was how she come to get caught by Pat Hawe an' his guerrillas. Sure!
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