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Updated: June 11, 2025
Put her there, young man!" And Tom Dillon shook hands cordially all around. "Yes, I knowed your uncle well we did a bit of prospectin' together onct. It broke me all up to hear how he died so many o' the old-timers droppin' off." "It was a great shock to our family," replied Roger. "Perhaps you know what brought me to Butte," he continued, looking at the old miner, questioningly.
But Casey merely grunted when I spoke to him about it. "Maybe it is. A coupla hundred ounces, say. What's that, even with silver at a dollar an ounce? It ain't good enough for Casey, and what I'm wastin' my time for, wearing the heels off'n my shoes prospectin' Starvation, is somethin' I can't tell yuh." He looked at me with his pale-blue, unwinking stare for a minute.
And Silsbee, being dead, didn't come for the letter; and as you didn't ask for it when you came, and didn't even mention Silsbee's name, that same letter was sent back to your cousin through me, because the bank thought we knew his whereabouts. It came to the gulch by an express rider, whilst you were prospectin' on the hillside.
Mutual whiskey and silence can express much friendship, and eloquently. "What are yu' doing at present?" Lin inquired. "Prospectin'." Now prospecting means hunting gold, except to such spirits as the boy Lin. To these it means finding gold. So Lin McLean listened to the talk of his friend Honey Wiggin as the caboose trundled through the night.
Well, I was trampin' once in Montany, when, one afternoon, I and my pard he was prospectin' came to a clearin', and there we saw a sight that made us all feel sick. It was the smokin' ruins of a log cabin, which them devils had set on fire. But that wasn't what I referred to.
And he had his stuff there, yu, see, and run the ferry, and a kind of a store. He kept coffee and canned goods and star-plug and this and that to supply the prospectin' outfits that come acrosst on his ferry on the trail to the mines. Then a cloud-burst hits his boat and his job's spoiled on the river, and he quits for the mines, takin' his stuff along do you follow me?
It's the regulation uniform of goddesses and angels, sorter as if they'd caught up a sheet or a cloud to fling round 'em before coming into this world afore folks; and being an allegory, so to speak, it ain't as if it was me or you prospectin' in high water. And, being of bronze, it" "Looks like a squaw, eh?" interrupted a critic, "or a cursed Chinaman?"
He often spends days alone there, with not a soul around, prospectin', so I understand." "Something might happen there, too, eh?" and Curly grinned. "Then the girl will be ours." "But what about the Police?" Dan warned. "They'd be on our trail like greased-lightning." "But it will be an accident like the other, won't it?" "But suppose the accidents don't happen?" "The devil do I care.
We can't stay here, that's sure, so we've just got t' risk it, an' th' sooner we get Rayburn down there th' better. When he's solidly safe, then we can do some prospectin' by good-luck we've got lots o' matches an' see where that path goes to. Just sling on your guns, Professor, an' let's mosey back an' get th' percession started.
And it's to be made now if you could see where. How? Can you tell me what the capital of the Hudson Bay district's goin' to be? You can't. Nor I. Nor yet where the six next new cities is going to arise, I get off here, but if I have my health I'll be out next summer again prospectin' North.
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