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Well, so as soon as they seen me, everybody says, 'Oh, here comes Sour-dough good old Sour-dough! and all like that, and they introduced me to the piano guy, who gets up to shake hands with me and spills his beer off the chair arm on to the wife of Eddie Fosdick in the Farmers' and Merchants' National, and so I sat down and et with 'em and had a few steins of beer, and everybody had a good time all around."
With that she relented, and ere she slept resolved to take up the matter of the mysterious disappearance with him the first thing in the morning. But morning found the boy in quite a different mood. He laughed and chatted gayly over his sour-dough pancakes.
Prince bared his womanly arms and kneaded sour-dough bread, casting, as he did so, many a glance at the three guests three guests the like of which might never come under a man's roof in a lifetime. The Strange One, whom Malemute Kid had surnamed Ulysses, still fascinated him; but his interest chiefly gravitated between Axel Gunderson and Axel Gunderson's wife.
"Seems as though I hadn't any ambition left," she often complained to her daughter. "There's nothin' here to do with, and nobody to do for. The most of the folks we ever see wouldn't know sour-dough bread from salt-risin', and as for dressin' up, I might keep the same clothes on from Fourth July till Christmas your father'd never know." But Ruth Mary was haunted by no fleshpots of the past.
She underrated Casey's knowledge of minerals; or perhaps she wanted to test it, you never can tell what a woman really has in the back of her mind. Casey sat there eating a sour-dough biscuit of his own making, and staring at the steep wall of the canyon because he was afraid to stare at the Little Woman, and so his uncannily keen eye saw a bit of rock no larger than Babe's fist.
"Does he doll Sour-dough up like that all the time?" demanded the Mixer, "or has he just come from a masquerade? What's he represent, anyway?" And these words when I had taken especial pains and resorted to all manner of threats to turn him smartly out in the walking-suit of a pioneer! "Maw!" cried our hostess, "do try to forget that dreadful nickname of Egbert's."
Big Bill Macy accepted the job with a grin. There was double pay in it both for him and the men he chose as his assistants. He had never liked old Holt anyhow. Besides, they were not going to do him any harm. Holt was baking a batch of sour-dough bread that evening when there came a knock at the cabin door.
"I'll give you twenty-eight for that musk-rat coat," said Mac. Benham turned, stared back at him a moment, and then laughed. "Oh, well, I suppose I can get another made for Rainey before the first boat goes down." "Then is it on account o' the bread," the Colonel was saying, "that the old-timer calls himself a Sour-dough?" "All on account o' the bread." They crowded out after Benham. "Coming?"
Also, if you care for the romantic, he was in love with Belinda Mulrooney, the most courageous woman who ever came into the north." "Why was she courageous?" "Because she came alone into a man's land, without a soul to fight for her, determined to make a fortune along with the others. And she did. As long as there is a Dawson sour-dough alive, he will remember Belinda Mulrooney."
Major Prouty, who had hoped to die in his boots, picturesquely, had passed away quietly in his bed with acute indigestion from eating sour-dough sinkers of his own manufacture. It was cold the day he was buried, so not many went to the funeral, and the board which had been put up to mark his grave, until the town could afford a suitable monument, had blown over.
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