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"Nothing doing there," was Smoke's judgment. "It was prospected years ago." "So were all the other rich creeks. Listen! It's big. Only eight to twenty feet to bedrock. There won't be a claim that don't run to half a million. It's a dead secret. Two or three of my close friends let me in on it. I told my wife right away that I was going to find you before I started. Now, so long.
"Twenty-two and a half miles from Stewart River another and larger creek enters from the same side; it agrees with the descriptions of Sixty Mile Creek, and I have so marked it on my map. This stream is of no importance, except for what mineral wealth may be found on it. Miller, Glacier, Gold, Little Gold and Bedrock Creeks are all tributaries of Sixty Mile.
But apart from education, the question of the bedrock on which morals rest, the foundation on which a moral edifice can be built that will stand secure against the storms of life that is a question of perennial interest, and it must be answered by each of us, if we would have a test of Right and Wrong, would know why Right is Right, why Wrong is Wrong.
It believes in an eternal Heaven for the righteous and a sad doctrine this, some of us may think in a Hell, equally eternal, for the wicked. Its bedrock is the Bible, especially the New Testament, which it accepts as true without qualification, from the first word to the last, troubling itself with no doubts or criticisms.
Sir Jeremy, Clare, Garrett, Robin, himself, the same bedrock of traditional pride was there, it was only that circumstances had altered them superficially. Three weeks ago Clare and he had seemed worlds apart, now he saw how near they were! But for that very reason, they would never get on he saw that quite clearly.
I was continually to glorify the stupidity of the people, and always append a moral. For a time I even succeeded in working myself up into a lathering frenzy of belief in what I was doing. The bedrock of life in the Middle West is the wheat harvest. There was a man named Carl Bonton who owned a threshing machine. I heard he was in need of hands for the season.
But this bedrock turned out to be scored by a small gutter or channel a few inches deep and about eighteen inches wide, which ran for about twenty feet through the middle of the claim. The surface soil gave no indication of the existence of the channel. The bottom of this channel was literally paved with nuggets.
He got down to bedrock and finally reached the point where he had gone without three successive meals. Pretty rough, wasn't it?" "I should say so," answered Williamson. His own distress was trivial beside a trouble like this. Lincoln fed the alcohol flame burning around the omelet just brought them.
The remarkable success recently achieved, through the multiplication of Bahá’í assemblies, groups and isolated centres, must be followed up by a corresponding increase in the number of the avowed and active supporters of the Faith—the bedrock on which the strength and stability of the entire community must rest.
Only remember, lass, it's not simply a question of principles that may seem to you high-flown, but of bedrock facts.
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