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This place was the solar plexus of the mine-organism, the centre of its nervous energies; to change the simile, it was the judgment-seat, where the miner had sentence passed upon him sentence either to plenty, or to starvation and despair. This place was the "tipple," where the coal that came out of the mine was weighed and recorded. Every digger, as he came from the cage, made for this spot.
The digger was a strong and fierce man, and there would doubtless have been a terrible and fatal encounter if Fred had not again interfered. He seized his friend from behind, and, whirling him sharply round, received on his own shoulder the blow which was meant for Tom's head. Fred fell, dragging his friend down with him.
He was about to pry up the stone when an army of black cats encircled the pit and glared into it with eyes of fire. The poor man, in an access both of alarm and courage, whirled the bar about his head and shouted "Scat!" The uncanny guards of the treasure disappeared instanter, and at the same moment the digger found himself up to his middle in icy water that had poured into the hole as he spoke.
"I'll know better next time," he said, humbly. Pinkey consulted his watch and hinted: "Don't you want me to make the bread?" "No, I have some biscuit to warm over, we'll boil potatoes, thaw the cake out, open some pineapple, and with what I have in the oven we will have a dinner that'll be nothing short of a banquet." "Great! I'm so hungry I could eat with a Digger Injun."
He had scarcely concluded the last line ere he heard a well-known tap upon the door. He smiled as he arose from his chair, crossed the room and flung open the door. He knew well whom he should find standing there, old Adam, the village sexton and grave digger, who always stopped when he saw a light in the study window.
For a time, it seems, he was a mounted policeman in New South Wales, until, 'compelled by duty to attend an execution, he was so much affected that he threw up the appointment in disgust. Then, like many another unlucky digger, he was obliged to travel the country in search of work on the sheep and cattle stations. A well-known pastoralist of the western district of Victoria, the late Hon.
Sing " but Hop Sing had vanished, leaving only his white apron across the wash bench. Men were already scrambling onto their horses, and loping in from all directions. Rand cut out a buckskin leader, mounted, and dashed frantically back up the road followed by a dozen horsemen. "Rand, who was it?" "I don't know, exactly. Thought I saw Digger Dan " They were over the hill, and Jo heard no more.
Dickon took his spade and dug the hole deeper and wider than a new digger with thin white hands could make it. Mary slipped out to run and bring back a watering-can. When Dickon had deepened the hole Colin went on turning the soft earth over and over. He looked up at the sky, flushed and glowing with the strangely new exercise, slight as it was.
Can you tell me where I can find him?" cried the digger, in great excitement. "I'm afraid you'll not find him at all, my friend," replied the merchant, "for he left the colony in the Sabrina for England ten days ago." The effect of this announcement on the poor man was tremendous. He uttered a violent imprecation, stamped furiously on the ground, while he ground his teeth together.
I passed on to where the grave digger was pursuing his occupation. He answered my morning salutation civilly enough, but continued intent upon his work.
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