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Ain't nothing can stop me, ain't nothing at all. I'm going to ride that boat, with you at the steering sweep, clean to Klondike, and I'm going to shake three hundred thousand out of the moss-roots. That being so, it's contrary to reason and common sense for me to sell out my passage. But I thank you kindly, son, I thank you kindly."
Me for the red flare every time." The day had been clear and cold, but a blanket of cloud formed across the face of the sky, and the night came on warm and dark, with the hint of snow impending. The thermometer registered fifteen below zero, and in the Klondike winter fifteen below is esteemed very warm.
Up in the Yukon that year there were continued echoes of the famous O'Brien murder case detailed in our preceding chapter, the leading note being that the capture and execution of this desperate criminal had attracted world-wide attention to the efficiency of the Police and had made the Klondike country safer for everybody.
Sit down and think it over, doctor; you are really too bright a man to be led astray by the razzle-dazzle of Single Tax sophistry. You do your enviable reputation for intelligence a rank injustice by mistaking poor old George for an economic Messiah, and if you are not careful somebody will try to sell you a gold-brick or stock in a Klondike company. Suppose that you and Hon.
This requires expensive machinery, and little necessity for it seems to exist in the Klondike. In placer mining the pay dirt is washed by the simplest methods, such as were practised in California during the pioneer days. Everything was hurry and bustle at Dawson City on that day, late in May, when our friends arrived.
Even the big bald-face grew clumsy and blind and quarrelsome, in the end to be dragged down by a handful of yelping huskies. He remembered how he had abandoned his own father on an upper reach of the Klondike one winter, the winter before the missionary came with his talk-books and his box of medicines.
His family and friends took on themselves the means they thought most likely to make that disappearance a finality." "Have you heard anything, seen anything?" "One night just before I left the West a traveler asked me for a night's lodging. He had been prospecting in British America in the region of the Klondike, and was full of incidental conversation.
I want to be towd about it," he sighed. He pulled the atlas toward him and found a place in it. "That theer's Dawson," he announced. Tembarom saw that the region of the Klondike had been much studied. It was even rather faded with the frequent passage of searching fingers, as though it had been pored over with special curiosity. "There's gowd-moines theer," revealed Tummas.
They are much to be preferred to the usual Klondike bag for convenience in packing and unpacking one's things and in protecting them. It is hardly necessary to say that clothes have to be kept down to the limit of comfort.
"See any coal?" he asked. "If trouble should come" it was just after the flight of Diaz "we haven't coal enough to go half-way up or down the coast." Sometimes we can guess the game from the moves of the chess players. With facts for chessmen, what are the moves? It was up in Atlin, British Columbia, a few years after the Klondike rush.
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