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Updated: May 2, 2025
There was nothing left for him, Long Jim, to do, but to take his dish and turn fossicker; or even to aim no higher than washing over the tailings rejected by the fossicker. At the thought his tears flowed anew. He cursed the day on which he had first set foot on Ballarat. "It's 'ell for white men 'ell, that's what it is!" "'Ere, 'ave another drink, matey, and fergit yer bloody troubles."
During that drought-stricken Christmas-time my mate was down at the "Cross," trying to carry through some business by which our coffers might be replenished; for work how we would on alluvial or quartz reefs, no gold could we find. That we worked with a will, the remark made to me by an old fossicker will go to show.
Nevertheless two batteries are working at the present day, and a good find by some old fossicker is not so rare. Setting aside the question of gold-discoveries, which may or may not be made, this district has a great future before it to be derived from the raising of stock, cattle, sheep, and horses.
He seems to be standing somewhere, an old, old man, with a younger one at his side; the younger one has Isley's face. Horses' feet again! Ah, God! Nemesis once more in troopers' uniform! The fossicker falls on his knees in the mud and clay at the bottom of the drive, and prays Heaven to take his last child ere Nemesis comes for him.
'These ones had Chinky blood in them daughters of a Chinaman fossicker.... We're not partial to the Chinese in Australia only we don't eat them, we expel them methods just a bit dissimilar, but the principle the same, you see.... Anyway, of course we took on the gin and her girls, and for about a year didn't have any particular trouble at the station with the blacks though there was a shepherd speared in one of the out-huts.... That was his fault, however, poor devil the old story but it don't matter.
Up over long blue ocean ridges, down into long blue ocean gullies; on to lands so new, and yet so old, where above the sunny glow of the southern skies blazed the shining names of Ballarat! and Bendigo! The deck seemed to lurch, and the fossicker fell forward against the face of the drive. The shock recalled him, and he lifted his pick once more.
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