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Updated: May 1, 2025
The pipeclay was in his marrow, and he became in time rough-riding sergeant of the regiment. I am told that soon he will be offered a commission. This story contains two morals: both so obvious that they need not be recorded. Of the many queer characters who took up land in the brush hills near our ranch none excited greater tongue-wagging than the Baron. The squatters called him the Baron.
'Old Pipeclay, that is what he called my friend, 'the fellow that bought ME got just as much commission on me as the fellow that bought YOU, and that was all that HE thought about. You know it is only the public money that goes! And the horrid creature grinned again till he actually cracked himself. There is a Providence above all things, even museums."
White pipeclay existed on the bed. The weather was oppressive to-day. Here my latitude was 26 degrees 27', longitude 134 degrees. It took all next day to water the horses. Thermometer 92 degrees in shade, hot wind blowing.
Certain articles of finery seemed to be greatly valued among them, such as red, white and blue umbrellas, like those used as signs in our cities; patchwork and Marseilles quilts; orange shirts and green dresses; pink and pearl shells; little bells; small mirrors; and beads about four inches long made of fine pipeclay.
Both seemed to have been clawed impartially. Their tightfitting coats bulged at the breast or opened at the waist, as though buttons were lacking, and the whiteness of that garment cried aloud for the purification of pipeclay. Questions flew. The damsel who had been pursued was known as a pretty girl, the daughter of a blacksmith, and no prolonged resistance was expected from one of her class.
The wardrobes of both warriors are much impaired by active service, but their originally white flannel trousers, if patched, discoloured, and shrunken by amateur lavations, boast the cut of Bond Street; their shirts, if a trifle ragged, are immaculately clean, and the cracks in their canvas shoes are disguised by a lavish expenditure of pipeclay.
As soon as the horses got into the hard road they rattled on like hell-and-skimmer, and went out of sight in the dust, and that's all. If you'd come back a little sooner you'd ha' caught her. Jim had turned whiter than his pipeclay. 'O, this is too bad too bad! he cried in anguish, striking his brow. 'That paper and that fainting woman kept me so long. Who could have done it? But 'tis my fault.
"When Tom reached 'Pipeclay', the girl's relations, that she was stopping with, had a parson readied up, and they were married the same day." "And what happened after that?" asked Mitchell. "Nothing happened for three or four months; then the child was born. It wasn't his!" Mitchell stood up with an oath. "The girl was thoroughly bad.
Gravel and shingle were cleared away without examination, then a bed of gray clay, as too porous to hold gold; but when a stratum of pipeclay was reached the diggers knew that not an ounce of gold would be found beneath, and their search was confined to a little streak of brownish clay, about an inch in thickness, just above the pipeclay.
We don't feel the heat through the day, except when we are at the windlass drawing up the pipeclay, or while washing our `stuff, for we are generally below ground `driving. But, although not so hot as above, it is desperately warm there too, and the air is bad. "Our drives are two and a half feet high by about two feet broad at the floor, from which they widen a little towards the top.
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