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Updated: May 18, 2025
Among those persevering though unsuccessful diggers had been, for a considerable time past, our hero Tom Brixton. Perhaps the decision with which Elizabeth Bevan repelled him had had something to do with his late reckless life. But we must guard the reader here from supposing that Betty Bevan was a beauty. She was not.
Other diggers came trooping in as the news spread, and Tommy Dartmoor, who was rapidly becoming mellow, for he drank half a tumbler of raw whisky with every one who nodded to him, stood them refreshments galore, while the greasy Jew began to see visions of his adopted fatherland in the near distance.
The readers of the Johannesburg Standard and Diggers' News will remember among the staple attacks upon capitalism quite a series of articles intended to decoy mining artisans and operatives to Boer views.
The tools still lay in the hole, showing that the claim had not been abandoned, although work had temporarily ceased. Next day the claim was still unworked; the tent stood in its place, showing that the diggers had not moved away. Although, from their previous conversation, Frank thought that he might not improbably meet with a repulse, after work was done he strolled over to the tent.
In vain did I recall the fact that my competitors were notoriously persons far inferior to me in knowledge of the topics; far inferior in the capacity to analyze them; rude and coarse in expression; unfamiliar with the language mere delvers and diggers in a science in which I secretly felt that I should be a master.
About 1880, the French under Count De Lesseps undertook to construct a canal from Panama to Aspinwall, but after half a dozen years the French company suspended work, partly for financial reasons, and partly on account of the enormous loss of life among the diggers from the pestilent nature of the climate and the country.
He watched the men at work; some were digging holes, some were dissolving clay in tubs of water by stirring it rapidly with spades, and a few were stooping at the edge of water-holes, washing off the sand mixed with the gold in milk pans. Philip tried to enter into conversation with the diggers. He stopped near one man, and said: "Good day, mate. How are you getting along?"
'I did not think there was a Mister on the camp. But how do you know my name? 'I have heard it here to-night half a dozen times. My name is Wat Ryder Walter Ryder, but mono syllabic Christian names are insisted on amongst our friends. He pointed his cigar towards the diggers at the tables. 'Forgive me, he continued in an even voice, 'but your scrutiny of me is suggestive.
Our General grabbed a map, drew a pencil line across it, and said, 'Dig here, then he went back to his tea, and Tommy armed himself with a pick and shovel, and started digging. He's been digging ever since. "Of course, we dug those trenches at night, but it was hot work what with the rifle and machinegun fire. The stretcher-bearers worked harder than the diggers.
If he had been a member of some secret society, he would have burst up the secret, or the secret would have burst him. He had some friends among the diggers. The big gum tree in front of the church tent soon became a kind of trysting place on Sundays, at which men could meet with old acquaintances and shipmates, and convicts could find old pals.
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