kooriously

Updated: May 17, 2025

He has made his fortin at the gold-mines, kooriously enough, without diggin' for it, an' has come for to know that it's sometimes possible to pay too high a price for that same metal, as is proved by many an' many a lonely grave in the wilds of Californy.

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - Digging for Gold: Adventures in California