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"Another one!" raved Wunpost. "Say, you must think it's easy! I'll never find another one in a life-time. Another Sockdolager? I could sell that mine tomorrow for a million dollars, cash; it's got a hundred thousand dollars in sight!" "Well, that's what you told me when we had the Willie Meena, and now already they say it's worked out and I know Mr. Eells isn't rich.
Did the minister give out the long-meter doxology, at once I began: "Doxology sockdology sockdolager meter meet her." The sermon ran through my mental sieve, its precepts filtering unheeded, could I but glean a suggestion of a pun or a bon mot.
I've told you my terms, and there's no use coming back to me it's the Sockdolager Mine or nothing." "Suit yourself," returned Wunpost, "but I'm just beginning to wonder whether I'm shooting it out with the right men. What's the use of fighting murderers, and playing tag with Apache Indians, when the man that sends 'em out is sitting tight? In fact, why don't I come in here and get you?"
By the time they've rode as far as I have they'll know she's a mountain sheep country. I located two mines right smack beside the trail and these jaspers came along and stole them both. All right! Fine! Fine! Let 'em look for the old Sockdolager where I got this gold, and the first man that finds it can have it! I'm a sport I haven't even staked it!"
An Independent Press is not to be muzzled by any absurd old buffer with a crooked nose, and a sister who is considerably more mother than wife. Not as long as we have our usual success in thinning out the judiciary with buck shot. Lone Tree "Sockdolager." .... Yesterday, as Job Wheeler was returning from a clean-up at the Buttermilk Flume, he stopped at Hell Tunnel to have a chat with the boys.
By gosh, that wer a sockdolager; I guess the big varmint is kinder gettin' riled!" The whale here spouted and fluked his tail, diving down for a moment beneath the surface; but, he did not long disappear, and when he came up shortly afterwards nearer the ship, the spectators could see that the water around him was dyed with blood.
Mr Zachariah Lathrope, who made light of his injuries, albeit his left arm was in a sling confessing, too, that his side "felt kinder painful, as if some coon had given him a sockdolager in the ribs, or a grizzly bar put his hug on" was seated at the replaced table, pitching into a sort of heavy lunch, to make amends for his missed breakfast, while the steward was cutting up a plentiful supply of ham for him on his plate, so that he could use his solitary hand with a fork and so feed himself.
He nodded confidently but Judson Eells' proud lip went up and instantly he became the bold financier. "No," he said, "you'll never get it, Mr Calhoun not until you take me to the Sockdolager Mine." "Nothing doing," replied Wunpost "not for you or any other man. I stay away from that mine, from now on. Why should I give up a half ain't I got thirty thousand dollars, hid out up here under a stone?
And every second or two there'd come a glare that lit up the white-caps for a half a mile around, and you'd see the islands looking dusty through the rain, and the trees thrashing around in the wind; then comes a H-WHACK! bum! bum! bumble-umble-um-bum-bum-bum-bum and the thunder would go rumbling and grumbling away, and quit and then RIP comes another flash and another sockdolager.
That would take him into the canyon above Blackwater, where the pocket-miners had their claims; but surely the great Sockdolager was not over there, for the district had been worked for years. Wilhelmina's heart stopped as she looked out the country from the high ridge beyond the stone-patch could it be that his mine was close?
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