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Updated: May 4, 2025
'How is it that you have come here? asked the man, when their first expressions of surprise were over. 'Why, we come by the steamer last night, replied Mark. 'Our intention is to make our fortuns with punctuality and dispatch; and to retire upon our property as soon as ever it's realised. But how are you all? You're looking noble!
"Instead of which my father is making quite a fortune out of it, Sam." "Ay, I s'pose so, my lad, but fortuns aren't everything. It makes him look worried, it do, and he've give up his garden, as is a bad sign. I don't like to see a man give up his garden. It means weeds." "Well, then, why don't you hoe them up, Sam?" I said sharply. "Hoe 'em up, lad?
Here we are with the gold lying in shovelfuls among the sand o' this here river, plenty for all on us to make our fortuns, and I says it would be a sin and a shame to leave it behind to go shooting red and yaller and blue cock robins and jenny wrens to get their skins. There, that's the longest speech I ever made in my life, but it had to be done.
'Our fortuns, Mas'r Davy, he rejoined, 'is soon told. We haven't fared nohows, but fared to thrive. We've allus thrived. We've worked as we ought to 't, and maybe we lived a leetle hard at first or so, but we have allus thrived. What with sheep-farming, and what with stock-farming, and what with one thing and what with t'other, we are as well to do, as well could be.
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