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Only once did the Texan speak. It was when they passed a band of sheep grazing beside the road: "They're minin' the country," he said, thoughtfully. "The time ain't far off when we'll have to turn nester or move on." "Where?" asked Alice. The cowboy shrugged, and the girl detected a note of unconscious sadness in his tone: "I don't know. I reckon there ain't any place for me.
"So you 'n' me is pardners till I say when. We'll clean up some real jack together. Minin' ain't in it, no more, with hootch runnin' if yuh play it right. The good old White Mule goes under the wire, old-timer, an' takes the money. Burros is extinct." "Burros ain't any extincter than what you'll be when I git through with yuh," gritted Casey savagely, shutting off the gas.
"After my eighteenth bestowin' of the honored name of Scraggs upon a person that didn't appreciate it the Mormon Church see fit to assume a few duties on me. I was put in a position of importance in a placer minin' districk inhabited by jack-rabbits, coyotes, Chinamen, and Mrs. Scraggses. And still I wasn't happy.
He borrowed fifty dollars from me which he ain't paid back yet, come to think on't an' went to Nevada minin' an' just at present he's about settled into his regular legitimate business. He was headed that way from birth. I could read the signs." "What is his present profession?" "He's an Inspector o' Landscapes." "You're wrong. He's not a Desert Rat." "He is. I can prove it." "He's too young.
"Tim said too much but a part of it was true. Ye think ye've come here and been one of us workin' people." But don't your own sense tell you the difference, as if it was a canyon a million miles across between a poor ignorant creature in a minin' camp, and a rich man's daughter, a lady?
The western seaboard between the Yenisei and Ob estuaries had already been surveyed by Ovtzin and Minin in 1737-9. But the problem was already being attacked from the side of the Pacific Ocean.
"What? a mine-cap'n? ay, to be sure, that accounts for the colour of his clothes. . . . Out o' work, was he? There's been a lot o' distress down in the Minin' District lately." "You're wrong again," said Seth: "he's a gun-sojer, or so he told me." "What, an army-cap'n? . . . But I oft to ha' guessed. Come to think, he didn' look scarcely more 'n that."
Allie Ash, the brakeman on No. 4, he tells me she used to be in Spokane, and now she'd got her hooks on to some minin' property up in the Coeur d'Alene. Course, this mightn't be the one." The old man had ceased to listen. He was aroused to the need for action. "Get movin', Billy! We can get down to Eden to-night; we'll have the moon fur two hours on the trail soon's the sun's gone.
It's a queer country, let alone minin', for the hill is full of those natural caves, an' the rivers an' the becks drops into what they call pot-holes, an' come out again miles away." "Wot was you doin' there?" said Ortheris. "I was a young chap then, an' mostly went wi' 'osses, leadin' coal and lead ore; but at th' time I'm tellin' on I was drivin' the waggon-team i' th' big sumph.
Gettysburg hesitated, then slowly came out of the water. He looked at the sluices hazily. "Just gittin' her to pay," he said. "The only easy minin' I ever done." Napoleon, suddenly dispirited utterly dispirited had nothing more to say. Slowly and in broken order the three old cronies wended towards the cabin.
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