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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Why, Pop," said the superintendent, winking to the expressman, "this lump looks as though it contained gold." "Yes," put in the expressman, "that's how gold comes in a mine. I've often handled it. That's the stuff, sure." The fruit-selling boy and the mail-man grinned. Pop Thornberry opened wide his mouth and eyes and softly repeated the word: "Goal!" "I'd be careful of it," advised Mr.
On that he shook them off, and shouldered his way through that heterogeneous throng that was composed of bustling traders of several nations English, French, and Dutch of planters and of seamen of various degrees, of buccaneers who were fruit-selling half-castes, negro slaves, some doll-tearsheets and dunghill-queans from the Old World, and all the other types of the human family that converted the quays of Cayona into a disreputable image of Babel.
He added, however, that he did not like fruit-selling, and returned to his old trade of "gunsmith," gunning being the slang term for thieving, or going on the cross. The real fact was, that he never intended anything else than being a "gunsmith," but only used the deception in order to obtain a little more money from the Aid Society than he otherwise could.
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