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Updated: May 13, 2025
One of these I can relate almost in the very words of the man himself to whom the incident occurred; and it was only an ordinary digger's tale. "My mates and I," he said, "were camped in a gully with some forty or fifty other miners. It was a little quiet place, a long way from any township.
I'd have kept it from you you would never have known but Falconer has forced my hand; I was bound to show you how necessary it was that we should have him as friend instead of foe. You are not ashamed of me, my boy; you won't go back on me?" In the stress and strain of his emotion the old digger's slang came readily to his lips.
He shook his head. "Neither do I. I want to go to Beta and be a sunstone digger's wife." "And a Fuzzyologist." "And a Fuzzyologist. I couldn't drop that now. Gerd, we're only beginning with them. We know next to nothing about their psychology." He nodded seriously. "You know, they may turn out to be even wiser than we are." She laughed. "Oh, Gerd! Let's don't get too excited about them.
Then the armed protectors of the integrity from foreign invasion of the rights of Chinkie's Flat nodded "Good evening" to Ah San, and walked back across the road to the "Digger's Best," and the Chinamen, with silent, childlike patience, resumed their loads and trotted along after their leader.
We had before determined to square accounts and divide the gold every Saturday night, but this small quantity was not worth the trouble, so it was laid by in the digger's usual treasury, a German match-box. These round boxes hold on an average eight ounces of gold. These two unproductive holes had not been very deep. The top, or surface soil, for which a spade or shovel is used, was of clay.
He eats Grasshoppers, Beetles and small Snakes, as well as such small animals as he catches. It was well for you, Peter, that you jumped when you did, for I suspect that Digger would have enjoyed a Rabbit dinner. "Very little is known of Digger's family life, but he is a good husband. In winter he sleeps as Johnny Chuck does, coming out soon after the snow disappears in the spring.
Confidence had thus been established between the two, but not to the extent of capture, for on the gold-seeker attempting to place his left hand over his new acquaintance, he scuttled away to his rock with almost inconceivable quickness. The digger's smoke over, he returned to his work in the hole, leaving his blouse where he had sat.
Palmer Billy, never very averse to free comment on passing events, was the personification of eloquence on the day that the robbery of the digger's gold was discovered.
"One time, jus' when ever'thing was a-goin' fine, a sad thing happened. My young mistis, de one named for her ma, ups an' runs off wid de son o' de Irish ditch digger an' marries 'im. She wouldn' a-done it if dey'd a-let 'r marry de man she wanted. Dey didn' think he was good 'nough for her. So jus' to spite' em, she married de ditch digger's son.
Instantly every pannikin was emptied on the floor, and thrust into a digger's shirt. 'The traps! cried Mrs. Ben, and her rum-jug flew into a tub of water behind the counter. Several bundles of washing were tossed out, a loaf of bread was thrust upon Done, and at the same moment the door was thrown back, and in marched Sergeant Wallis, followed by five police. Mrs.
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