digger-costume

Updated: May 15, 2025

A piece of the rope was still hanging from the tree. When I got back to the 'hotel' a place not much better than the shed at Yuba Forks I found a newspaper with an account of the affair. Drawing a chair up to the stove, I was deep in the story, when a huge rowdy-looking fellow in digger-costume interrupted me with: 'Say, stranger, let's have a look at that paper, will ye?

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone