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Far down the road an ore train clattered along on the way to the Sampler, that great middleman institution which is a part of every mining camp, and which, like the creamery station at the cross roads, receives the products of the mines, assays them by its technically correct system of four samples and four assayers to every shipment, and buys them, with its allowances for freight, smelting charges and the innumerable expenditures which must be made before money can become money in reality.
Wood's copper money, upon trials and assays made by Sir Isaac Newton, Mr. Southwell, and Mr. Scroope, were laid before this Committee for their information."
"I have practised my present attitude all the day, Miss," said Peter, proudly, "and I believe I may now say as Mr. Sternhold says or sings, in the twenty-sixth Psalm, verse twelfth. 'My foot is stayed for all assays, It standeth well and right, Wherefore to God will I give praise In all the people's sight! Jacobina, behave yourself, child.
Cherokee strikes a three- foot vein up in the Mariposas that assays a trip to Europe to the ton, and he closes it out to a syndicate outfit for a hundred thousand hasty dollars in cash. Then he buys himself a baby sealskin overcoat and a red sleigh, and what do you think he takes it in his head to do next?" "Chuck-a-luck," said Texas, whose ideas of recreation were the gamester's.
We are like Othello in the play: Our blood begins our safer guides to rule; And passion, having our best judgment quelled, Assays to lead the way. This is the explanation of the greatest enormities that have been perpetrated by man, and the inhuman deeds of Nero and Caligula. We proceed from bad to worse. The reins of our discretion drop from our hands.
His broker was always Buckbee, that gay, laughing Beau Brummel who had given him his first start in the world. It was Buckbee who had met him when he first came to the Waldorf with his assays and his samples of ore and, after much telephoning and importuning and haggling, had arranged for his interview with Stoddard.
These details of assays have ceased to interest me: like the man who "didn't believe in ghosts," I have seen too many of them. The fresh-faced little curate and his wife, however, were quite different people. He was a cricketing Oxford man; she was a breezy Scotch lass, with a wholesome breath of the Highlands about her. I called her "White Heather." Their name was Brabazon.
"Put a woman's good name on trial and sentence it on hearsay without appeal or recourse." "There is always the danger of going too far along those lines," pointed out Marrineal judicially. "Pardon me, all-wise Proprietor. The d-danger lies in not going far enough. The frightful p-peril of being found dull." "The Territon story assays too thin in facts, as we've put it out. If Mrs.
The fifty-pound bar of lead was placed in the midst, and was eyed reproachfully. I resigned my trusteeship, and they saw me not again. That was my first and last mining speculation. It failed somehow but the assays were all very good. Mike Reese. I had business with him, and went at a business hour.
He went to sleep chuckling over it. The next morning the young man had quite regained his good spirits. The girl, on the other hand, was rather quiet. Dr. McPherson made no objections to furnishing a copy of the assays. The records, however, were at the School of Mines. He drove down to get them, and in the interim the two young people, at Mrs.
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