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Fleming's engagement, two weeks later, to the daughter of the recluse religious hunter who had made a big strike at Lone Run, excited some skeptical discussion, even among the honest congratulations of his partners. "That's a mighty queer story how Jack got that girl sweet on him just by borrowin' a prospectin' pan of her," said Faulkner, between the whiffs of his pipe under the trees.
"Ther up-country, whar I has been trappin', huntin', prospectin', and killin' a Injin or two see!" "And now you wish to turn stage-driver?" "If it pays what they told me at Fort Faraway I does." "The pay is good; but have you no references?" "Yas." "Where are they?" "Here." The old man put his hands upon his revolvers and drew them with a lightninglike motion that surprised the lookers-on.
The Chinaman looked up: "Me strikee pay dirt; me no bury dead 'Melican in 'em grave. Me keep 'em claim." The corpse sat up erect: "Jim, git my revolver and chase that pig-tail off. Jump his dam sepulchre, and tax his camp five dollars each fer prospectin' on the public domain. These Mungolyun hordes hez got to be got under. And-I say-Jim! 'f any more serpents come foolin' round here drive 'em off.
Even he managed to fish out a curled stamp from somewhere in the wall pocket. Then he sat down and looked out the door over the willow bushes shivering in the evening air. "'Chivalerous!" said he. "'Well-to-do! A good home and loving care! If that can be put acrosst with any woman in the whole wide world, I'll have faith again in prospectin'!"
I drove stage all m' life till I took to prospectin' an' I never could stand around and let anybody else monkey with my teams. I ain't a doubt in the world, Mr. Nolan, but what you know as much about Fords as I do. More, mebby. But Casey Ryan's got 'is little ways, an' he can't seem to ditch 'em. We'll eat; an' then mebby we'll look 'er over together.
Foger had hired the natives with the dog teams, and, by means of the copy of the map and with what knowledge his Eskimos had, had reached the valley of gold. "We have certainly struck it rich," went on Abe, as he went back to where he had dug the hole. "Now we'd better all begin prospectin' here, for it looks like a big deposit. We'll stake out a large enough claim to take it all in. I guess Mr.
"Perhaps we'll get a chance to do some hunting!" exclaimed Phil. "Not much, this time o' year, lad. But you might hunt a bear if he cornered you!" And Tom Dillon laughed at his little joke. "Did a bear ever corner you?" asked Dave. "Onct, just onct, and it was the wust experience I ever had with a wild beast," replied the old miner. "I was out prospectin' when I got on a narrow ledge o' rock.
"I ben aware fer some time that the' was a movement on foot in your direction," he said. "You know I told ye that I'd ben int'ristid in the oil bus'nis once on a time; an' I hain't never quite lost my int'rist, though it hain't ben a very active one lately, an' some fellers down there have kep' me posted some. The' 's ben oil found near where you're located, an' the prospectin' points your way.
"When I git to thinkin' about hittin' out into the hills prospectin, or somethin', that roll uh dough I pack stands right on its hind legs an' says I got no excuse. I've got enough to keep me in bacon an' beans, anyway. An' the missus gits down in the mouth when I so much as mention minin'." "A guy grows old fast when he quits the game and sets down to do the grandpa-by-the-fire.
The pan had seen better days and worse ones, too, for one side of its rim was gone, and the bottom had been cleverly turned up to form a new one, making it semi-circular with a straight side. "Prospectin'?" my host ventured, eying me dreamily. "No, lookin'," I told him. "Humph." Then, "Hope you find it." But his curiosity ended there. "Say, if you're wantin' ter see sum'thin' good, looka that."
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