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Updated: May 18, 2025
"It's an old-timer, isn't it? Must be one of the first settlers." "Yes. It's thousands and thousands of years old. Father picked it up somewhere in Asia." "How does it work?" queried Glass, feeling of it gingerly. "It's a very holy thing," Helen explained. "The Mohammedan stands on it facing the East and cries 'Allah!" "Alley!" repeated the trainer. "No. Allah!"
He could ride and rope like an old-timer, and he was well qualified to put up a stiff gun-fight had the necessity ever arisen which it had not. He had three hundred and seventy-one pictures of different phases of range life, not counting as many that were over-exposed or under-exposed or out of focus.
During his year of service, you see, he had absorbed most of the navy traditions. He spoke the navy speech like an old-timer, and undoubtedly amplified the regular navy vocabulary with picturesque expressions of his own. Of course he was very profane....
"Yo'-all keep on and yo'll sure find yo'r tombstone out there some day." He could hear the old-timer saying the words now. And, as he listened to the grim warning again, he felt as perhaps those two prospectors felt in the moment of their awakening down by the river that fate had sadly swindled him.
He bought right and left, paying as low as fifty dollars and as high as five thousand. This highest one he bought in the Tivoli Saloon. It was an upper claim on Eldorado, and when he agreed to the price, Jacob Wilkins, an old-timer just returned from a look at the moose-pasture, got up and left the room, saying: "Daylight, I've known you seven year, and you've always seemed sensible till now.
Had they witnessed the subsequent procedure of Louis Gastell, the history of the Klondike would have been written differently; for they would have seen that old-timer, no longer limping, running with his nose to the trail like a hound, following them. Also, they would have seen him trample and widen the turn to the fresh trail they had made to the west.
"Maybe he didn't set the speedometer for the trip," suggested Rose. "Possible. Then again more likely he did. James is a methodical chap. Another thing, while you're at the private hotel where he lives, Cole. Find out if you can where James goes when he fishes or drives into the mountains. Perhaps he's got a cottage of his own or some favorite spot." "I'm on my way, old-timer!"
I reckon you got some pretty stones cached somewheres too, but I won't force your hand, seein's you've acted like a little lady. Just get up till I look at the seat. Now, partner" he turned on the man across the aisle "it's you to sweeten!" That individual produced a very attenuated roll. "Sorry I can't go to the centre any stronger, old-timer. You've got me at the wrong end between pay days."
"All right, old-timer," grunted Mack. "Don't be so short-tempered about it." He let the mules go and they scrambled up the bank, drawing the wagon after them. The chest lay on the river's edge. Pratt Sanderson had climbed upon his pony again. "You two git, also," growled the man in the tree. "I got all I want of ye." Pratt groaned aloud as he urged the grey pony after Molly.
"Tell it to me, old-timer," said he humbly. "I'm such a wise guy that it hurts me; but something has come off here that's a mile over my head. Tell me; I'm no mind reader." Old Man Curry combed his beard reflectively and gazed through the tack-room door into the dusk of the summer evening. "Son," said he at length, "you never swapped hosses much, did you?"
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