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Updated: May 3, 2025
"You're goin' at it right," he congratulated them. "Sure an' wasn't it under me roll of blankets I tramped into Oakland meself forty year ago! Buy land, like me, when it's cheap. It'll keep you from the poorhouse in your old age. There's plenty of new towns springin' up. Get in on the ground floor. The work of your hands'll keep you in food an' under a roof, an' the lend 'll make you well to do.
All hands'll be surprised. And when I tell 'em how you happened to see that money lyin' in a pile on the floor behind those boards and couldn't scarcely believe your eyes, and couldn't believe 'em until you'd reached down and picked up the money, and counted it That's about what you did, I presume likely, eh?" "Yes. . . . Yes, that's just it." "They'll be surprised then, and no wonder.
Come along quiet, and you'll see me waiting at the gate for you. "He gave way arter a time, and, fust going 'ome for a cup o' tea, I went on to the wharf to tell the skipper 'ow things stood. "'It couldn't 'ave 'appened better, he ses. 'Uncle Dick is sure to be aboard at that time, 'cos 'e's going acrost the water at eight o'clock to pay 'er a visit. And all the hands'll be away.
Come along quiet, and you'll see me waiting at the gate for you. "He gave way arter a time, and, fust going 'ome for a cup o' tea, I went on to the wharf to tell the skipper 'ow things stood. "'It couldn't 'ave 'appened better, he ses. 'Uncle Dick is sure to be aboard at that time, 'cos 'e's going acrost the water at eight o'clock to pay 'er a visit. And all the hands'll be away.
Thar's a half-formed thought in the public bosom that if anybody sees your trail to-morry, all hands'll turn in an' arrange you for the grave. "'Never mind about arrangin' nothin', says Shotgun; 'I quits you after the next drink; which libation I takes alone. An' Shotgun rides away. "What is the matter with Shotgun?
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