Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 14, 2025
Not a few of the citizens of Borealis had succumbed to the gayer attractions of Parky's festival, but the men who had builded a Christmas-tree and loaded its branches with presents waited and waited for tiny Skeezucks in the dingy shop. The evening passed. Night aged in the way that wintry storm and lowering skies compel. Dismally creaked the door on its rusted hinges.
"And Field kin look around and see if there ain't some extrys for little Skeezucks." "If only I had the determination I wouldn't accept a thing from Parky's stock," drawled the miner, as before. "I'll go to work on the claim and pay you back right off."
"And the worst of it is," said the blacksmith, in conclusion, "we all owe a little at the store, and Parky's got suspicious that we're sneakin' things to you." Indeed, as he left the house, he saw that certain red-nosed microbe of a human being attached to the gambler, spying on his visit to the hill.
You've got to be back before too late or your claim goes up, fer, Jim, you know as well as me that Parky's got the right of law!" "If only I could git that shrub," said Jim, as his friend departed, and back to the tossing little man he went, worried to the last degree. Bone was right.
"I thought he mebbe hadn't come," said Bone, when Webber gave his report, "but Parky's goin' to try to jump his claim at twelve o'clock, and we ain't goin' fer to stand it! Come on down to my saloon fer extry guns and ammunition. We're soon goin' up on the hill to hold the ledge fer Jim and the poor little kid."
"To-morrow is New Year's, sure enough," Jim replied, reflectively. "That mine belongs to little Skeezucks." "But Parky's goin' to jump it, and he's got a gang of toughs to back him up." "I'd hate to lose it, Bone. It would seem hard," said Jim. "But I ought to go up in the hills to find that shrub. If only I had a horse. I could go and git back in time to watch the claim."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking