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Updated: April 30, 2025
But first you must move into diggings, these clubs are all in a league, every one of them will be shut to you." "You are not bothering to ask if it is true," said Joan. She moved forward and sat down, her hands clenched on her lap. "I suppose " Rose interrupted, putting a swift hand on hers. "Don't," she said, "don't deny it or tell me the truth, whichever you were thinking of doing.
Kyley and Ben were married or merely mates, but popular opinion tended to the latter belief, legal unions being incompatible with a nice adjustment of forces at the rushes. The exigencies of life on the diggings made sudden changes of scene necessary to the men, and a woman like Mrs.
When crossing the Expedition Range, before reaching Clermont, on my way from Mistake Creek, I rode over to a small diggings to purchase meat. The only butcher was a man named Jackson, whose wife served me. She was a fine, comely woman, whom I afterwards met on the Lower Palmer, where her husband was keeping a store. He was burnt to death on Limestone Creek on that river.
We are only carrying out Her Majesty's orders for the benefit of the Colonial fisheries. "'Lord love yer soul, stranger! had I but known that, ye wouldn't a seen this salt-water citizen about these diggings. Pluck had been hum, helping Cousin Gethro to keep school would! "'Never mind that. We don't want yer Yankee soft sauder! Bear a hand, get your hatches off, and your papers up!
Boys suck the honey of the flower-stalk; and adults drink or otherwise use, as corrective of bile, an infusion of the leaves and the under bark. They could not give me the receipt for the valuable preparation of the green apple, well known to the Fantis of Accra. After returning to Axim we heard of rich diggings two hours' march inland, or north with easting from Esyáma.
On going to his house a couple of hours after about some trifling alteration I wished made, I found it shut up and deserted. On the door was pasted a paper with the following words, "Gone to the diggings."
So you see, I've been asking him what's my duty about them as I've left at home, and it seems to me, by what the good man says, as I haven't dealt by 'em quite as I should. It's a long story, and I needn't trouble you with it; but it just comes to this: I came back from the diggings with my mind made up to go home again first opportunity.
However, I told him what I had wanted; to give a surprise dinner at his diggings for the party from "Lorelei," with him to arrange details while I played guide, and to take the part of host for us at eight o'clock. Could he suggest any one who would look after the thing in his place? Van Rhonda or Douw, for instance?
So I tinkered with that and got nothing else done. I'm just after mending a hinge on the boathouse door. A profitless afternoon, I call it." "So you haven't been back to your diggings since noon." "Not a once. Why? Did you want me?" "N o. Oh, no." "That's lucky. Apparently everybody else did," concluded Jerry grimly. So went Walter's quest! Nobody had seen Lola. Nobody knew anything about her.
'I can't fancy anybody doing anything else in such a room, said Ida, to whom the spacious chamber looked as gloomy as a charnel-house. 'I beg your pardon. I hope you don't sleep here. 'No, my diggings are at the other end of the house, looking into the stable-yard. I like to be able to put my head out of window and order my horse saves time and trouble.
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