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Almost without a break in the insect-like tickings the reply came: Stand them off; help coming. The thing done, the master workman in Ford snatched at the helm. Did you catch and hold the pick-and-shovel men from this camp? he clicked anxiously. Got them all herded here and ready to go back to work for more pay,
Though Fred and the professor shouldered pick and shovel at sunrise every morning and laid them down thankfully at dusk every night, they could not hope to work out the assessment upon eight mining claims in a year. The professor was not a success as a pick-and-shovel man, though he did his best.
Hyde looked upon these tools with favor, and energetically tackled the business end of a "Number 2." He considered pick-and-shovel work the lowest form of human endeavor; nevertheless he engaged in it willingly enough, and he had not dug deeply before he uncovered the side of a packing-case, labeled "Choice California Canned Fruits."
"Illiteracy is a pick-and-shovel estate, a life sentence to meniality. Democracy may not have fixed classes and survive. The first duty of Congress is to preserve opportunity for the whole people, and opportunity can not exist where there is no means of information. "It is a shabby economy, an ungrateful economy that withholds funds for their betterment.
I'll be honest with you and admit that I didn't lean against the pay-shed and weep. I still wanted to work, but I decided that I didn't want to start life at its pick-and-shovel end if I could help it. So here I am, mother, asking you to give me a little real education say as a mining engineer, or something like that." Mrs. De Peyster was trembling with indignation.
I could have started in up at Columbia, and kept it from you. But I wanted to be all on the level " "I won't have it!" "You really mean that you are not going to add a few thousand more to my hundred thousands' worth of education?" "I certainly shall not!" "Then," said Jack regretfully, "I suppose after all I've got to start in at the pick-and-shovel end." "No, you will not!
He timed it to that of the gravel-train, which came slowly creaking nearer, rocking over the uneven tracks, then down upon the half-submerged rails which terminated near the opposing grade. It stopped finally, with headlight glaring into the faces of Denny and his troops, and from the high-heaped flat cars tumbled an army of pick-and-shovel men.
He thought it had always been there. He was a laborer, a pick-and-shovel man, and this was the only work he aspired to.
Into the narrow space between the end of his embankment and that of his rival's a gravel-train was spilling its burden, and a hundred pick-and-shovel men were busy. The opposing forces also seemed hard at work, but their activity was largely a pretense, and they showed plainly that they were waiting for the clash. They were a hard-looking crew, and their employer had neglected no precaution.
By the end of an hour they had more than doubled the amount of their find, and had filled their jacket pockets as full as it was prudent to load them; but it was evident that, profitable as this desultory, haphazard method of search had proved to be, much better results might be hoped for from systematic pick-and-shovel work; accordingly they agreed to suspend further operations until the arrival of the wagon, and the party of labourers which had been placed at their disposal by Lobelalatutu; they, therefore, scrambled out of the pit and set about searching for a suitable site for their camp, eventually pitching upon a spot about a quarter of a mile distant from the mine.
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