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Updated: June 21, 2025
On a patch of gravel not far from that cliff a husband and father had wandered for many days, after being saved he knew not how gazing wistfully, hopelessly at the sea which had swallowed up wife and children and fortune. He had been a "successful" gold-digger! On that patch of gravel scenes of terrible suspense had been enacted.
A man had been lying in the mesquite close to the creek watching him all the time. He knew it because he had caught the flash of light on the rifle barrel that covered him. The gold-digger beckoned with his hat as he called out. "Come right along to the party. You're welcome as a frost in June." A head raised itself cautiously out of the brush. "Don't you move, or I'll plug lead into you."
"Eh!" exclaimed Mr Allfrey, with a look of surprise, as if he could not understand the readiness with which his nephew agreed to the proposal, "why, how's this? I had fully expected you to refuse. Remember, boy, it is not to be a romantic gold-digger, which is another name for a born idiot, that I would send you out to California. It is to be a clerk, a quill-driver. D'you understand?"
If you can't respect an old man with gray hair, why " The rest of his remark caused the girl's eyes to widen and the chattering voices to fall silent. Sam Kirby turned, the dice-box poised in his right hand. "Eh? What's that?" he queried, vaguely. "I'm talking to this pink-faced gold-digger " "Father!" Rouletta exclaimed. "I'm just telling her "
When in harvest time, after sundown when the shadows forbid farther cutting with the fagging hook at the tall wheat he sits on the form without, under the elm tree, and feels a whole pocketful of silver, flush of money like a gold-digger at a fortunate rush, he does not indulge in Allsopp or Guinness.
The gold-digger is found in many parts of the earth; the gum-digger belongs to New Zealand alone. With spade, knife, and gum-spear he wanders over certain tracts of the province of Auckland, especially the long, deeply-indented, broken peninsula, which is the northern end of New Zealand.
I have been a soldier in Algeria, and won my cross on the field of battle, that cross and my colonel's letter are among my pieces justificatives; I have been a gold-digger in California, a speculator in New York, of late in callings obscure and humble.
He arrives from long and trying journeys; his clothes are ragged and torn, but his boots are new and shiny. He puts on patent-leather boots to tramp through the Australian bush, to fight in Egypt, to discover the north pole. Sometimes he is a gold-digger, sometimes a dock laborer, sometimes a soldier, sometimes a sailor, but whatever he is he wears patent-leather boots.
Utterly disgusted with my ill-success as gold-digger, I bethought myself of him, and was on my way to his abode, when, on attempting to cross your river, I was carried off my feet, and should have become food for fish or water-rats had it not been for your courage, Arthur and Willie; and I can say, with sincerity, that you deserve great credit for it.
The gleam was the gleam of gold, and on removing the loose earth round the roots of the plant, we came on No, I will not, I dare not, describe it. The gold-digger would cast it aside, the naturalist would pause not to heed it; and did I describe it, and chemistry deign to subject it to analysis, could chemistry alone detach or discover its boasted virtues?
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