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I obtained employment from Taft as a cook, but stayed with it only long enough to procure myself a "grub-stake," after which I "hit the grit" for Tucson, crossing the border on the Nogales trail a few days later. I arrived in Tucson in the latter part of the year 1870, and obtained work cooking for Charlie Brown and his family.
Two months after Smoke Bellew and Shorty went after moose for a grub-stake, they were back in the Elkhorn saloon at Dawson. The hunting was done, the meat hauled in and sold for two dollars and a half a pound, and between them they possessed three thousand dollars in gold dust and a good team of dogs. They had played in luck.
He put his handkerchief away and came and stood before them, adding, "I haven't had a chance to finish my other story. When Miss Jane gave me that grub-stake she didn't know, I reckon, that half of anything I might strike would belong to her that in law, grub-stakes always means halves! But I never had any intention of not dealing fair and square.
"Yes, an' 'tis ye that'll be 'round agin to kape me from proper enjoyment av the blissin's av civilization wid yer talk av the gold that's to be found in thim mountains that nobody but ye knows where they are. 'Tis a fool I am to be listenin' to yer crazy drames." "Just keep your shirt on a little longer, pard," returned the other soothingly. "We've most enough for a grub-stake now.
"It is well with me, and well with my soul what little I've got but it ain't so well with my winter grub-stake. I'm just as tickled to see you as you ever dare be to meet up with me, and that's no lie. I heard you've got a stand-in with the Double Cross, and seeing they ain't on to my little peculiarities, I thought I'd ride out and see if I couldn't work you for a soft snap.
Now, ma'am I'll tell you why I'm here." He proceeded to speak of an opportunity of immediate fortune which was open to him, after prolonged disaster, if only the sum of five hundred dollars might be forthcoming. A friend of his in Pony Gulch had sent him glowing reports of the region. "All I want is a grub-stake," said Mr. Keene, "and I'm sure to win!"
And now he was bent on following another rainbow; a rainbow which; arching over the mountains, ended in that arid, pitiless waste known in the south country as Death Valley. He wouldn't fail this time. No, by Yimminy! With Dad's three burros, and plenty of bacon and beans and water it was to be a grub-stake, of course he would make both their fortunes. And the beautiful part about it was, he did.
So, we'd hev gone bobbin' down that flood, me and my piah-chuck." "Your piah-chuck?" Mart inquired. The man faced the boy like a rat, but the alertness faded instantly from his eye, and his lip slackened into a slipshod smile. "Why, yes, sonny, me and my grub-stake. You've been to school, I'll bet, but they didn't learn yu' Chinook, now, did they?
Probably eight hundred ounces, besides the lead; and he had sorted out nearly a ton. About the time he was down to his bottom dollar he would ship and get another grub-stake. Then, when that was gone, if his vein opened up, he would ship to the smelter direct; but the first small shipment could be easier handled by a man who made it a business.
"It's the way he'd like to have gone. You are not to blame." "O, yes, I am. I should have stopped and sent him home. But I was beside myself, Doug, O, you don't know! you can't know!" "You're not to blame yourself about Johnny, I tell you." "Now I never do want to go back! You'll just have to grub-stake me, Doug. Please!" Douglas pushed his hair back from his forehead.
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