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"I thought we were the first to prospect along in here, an' now look at that. Don't it make you sick?" He pointed out evidences of an abandoned prospector's camp just before them charred ashes, empty tin cans, one or two gold-miner's pans, and a broken pick. "Don't that make you sick?" muttered Cribbens, sucking his mustache furiously.
I think he makes more out of whisky, however, than he ever did at Cariboo, though he still hankers after the old exciting times and the prospects of the gold-miner's toast, "Here's a dollar to the pan, the bed-rock pitching, and the gravel turning blue." Nowadays there are still plenty of men who traverse the country in all directions looking for new finds.
If it hadn't been a noble he killed I have no doubt he would have got off." "But you are noble yourself, Osip." "Yes, but that does not give me any marked advantage at present. Of course it will make a difference when I get out. My friends will send me money, and I shall live at Tobolsk and marry some wealthy gold-miner's daughter, and be in the best society.
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