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Updated: May 16, 2025
The quarrymen blasting into the side of the hill years back had made a small opening into the disused pit at some distance from the top, and this opening was accidentally discovered by Dick and Jacker one day during a hunt for a wounded rabbit. Investigation proved the mine to be of no great depth, and, thanks to the pumps of the Silver Stream, as dry as a bone.
Jacker and Ted were dubious. It was too sudden; their recent experiences had made them unusually respectful of the master. Dick marked the hesitation, and said scornfully: 'Oh, you fellows needn't be afraid. You won't be let in for it. I know a trick that's quite safe bin thinkin' about it all the afternoon.
The idea of Butts becoming attached to another master gave Dick a real pang. Already he had suffered many twinges of conscience in consequence of his neglect of the goat in captivity. 'Wait till r get hold o' that cove, he said bitterly. 'I'll murder him. 'Ain't we never goin' after them goats? asked Jacker. Dick nodded emphatically. 'My oath, I'll fix it.
They gathered about Dick, whose forehead was most picturesquely bedabbled with blood. 'Crikey! Dick, cried the wondering Jacker, 'did he hammer you much? 'Feel, said Dick, guiding one hand after another to a lump on his head that increased his height by quite an inch. 'Great Gosh! murmured Peterson; 'ain't he a one-er? The beggar must 'a' tried to murder you. Dick nodded.
Shine, kneeling on the floor, had gone on with his work in his covert way, as if quite unconscious of the foreman's burst of passion. JACKER MACK'S report having been entirely favourable, the invasion of Summers' orchard was under taken at dinner-time on the Tuesday following.
'All right, my grandmother's cat! You'll be findin' quartz reefs in a gum-tree next. 'You ask Jacker an' Ted, put in Dick resentfully, hurt to find his well-intentioned efforts so ungraciously received. 'Ask Jacker, is it? If Jacker comes playin' any of your monkey tricks with me, my lad, I'll make him smell mischief, I tell you. 'But hang it all, Mack! you might as well come an' see.
It would never do to miss any entertainment that might result from Harry's return, and yet there was Joel Ham still to be reckoned with. 'I think we'd better wait, he said. 'You fellows can let on as soon's he arrives. Ted's face fell again, and Jacker moved uneasily.
Thoughout the proceedings he had displayed no heat whatever, and when he addressed Jacker it was with his usual bland irony. 'You should thank me for my pains, my boy, but youth is proverbially ungrateful. You will think better of my efforts a few years hence; meanwhile I can afford to wait for the verdict of your riper judgment, Jacker I can afford to wait, my boy.
Distantly, from down the bubbling stream which led from the lake, there sounded the snarl of giant saws and the hum of machinery, where, in two great mills, the logs traveled into a manufactured state through a smooth-working process that led from "jacker" to "kicker", thence to the platforms and the shotgun carriages; into the mad rush of the bank saws, while the rumbling rolls caught the offal to cart it away; then surging on, to the edgers and trimmers and kilns.
And now, having observed the formalities, Jacker continued his descent, and in a few moments dropped from the primitive ladder and found a footing on a few planks thrown from one drive to another, across what was really an old shaft.
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