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Updated: May 8, 2025
"I don't see how a man can be so mean. It wouldn't have hurt him a bit to have let us stay there." "I hope he has no luck at hunting," grumbled Giant. "He deserves to go home skunked." "He will get some game -or his guides will get it for him," said Snap. "I wonder if it is possible that he has bought up Firefly Lake, too." "My gracious, that's so!" ejaculated Whopper.
It did strike him as strange, however, that when he selected a pan of dirt and washed it unassisted he found nothing. At such times Bill explained glibly enough that no pay dump carried steady values, and that an inexperienced sampler was apt to get "skunked" under the best of circumstances. Concentrates lay in streaks and pockets, he declared.
"Why didn't you?" asked Shep. "I couldn't -the rocks were in the way." "Well, the rocks were in my way, too." "How can a fellow shoot at a streak of greased lightning?" asked Whopper. "That buck was making a hundred miles a minute!" "Well, that's the end of that game," muttered Snap, much crestfallen. "Boys, it looks as if we were going to be skunked to-day."
"Well, you heard HOW the new sheriff did it skunked away with his whole posse before one-eighth of my men! You saw how the rest of this camp held up your nine troopers, and that sap-headed cub of a lieutenant didn't you? You wouldn't have been standing here if you hadn't. No; there isn't the civil process nor the civil power in all California that can take me out of this camp."
"Injins doin' ghost dancin' or suthin like that and the passengers just skunked out and went on by the other line. Thar's only one ez dar come and she's a lady." "A lady?" echoed Boyle. "Yes," answered the driver, taking a deliberate survey of a tall, graceful girl who, waiving the gallant assistance of the station keeper, had leaped unaided from the vehicle.
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