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Updated: May 20, 2025
They thought it best to escape from such a state of things with as little delay as possible, and immediately mounted their horses and pursued their journey. That night they took good care to encamp far enough off from any of the gold-finding fraternity. It was now our turn to explain to Lacosse the reason of our return to the settlements, and the unfortunate circumstances that had led to it.
I was near forgetting about old George. My word! he was getting on faster than we were, though he hadn't a golden hole. He was gold-finding in a different way, and no mistake. One day we saw a stoutish man drive up Main Street to the camp, with a well-groomed horse, in a dogcart, and a servant with him; and who was this but old George? He didn't twig us.
They were chiefly those to whom the ordinary operations of human trade or labor had proved tedious or unproductive with whom the toils, aims, and impulses of society were deficient of interest; or, upon whom, an inordinate desire of a sudden to acquire wealth had exercised a sufficiently active influence to impel to the novel employment of gold-finding or rather gold-seeking, for it was not always that the search was successful the very name of such a pursuit carrying with it to many no small degree of charm and persuasion.
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