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Updated: May 13, 2025
He scrambled up the shaft by the foot-holes, and sat on the edge of the waste-heap, looking very pale. 'What's the matter? asked Dave. 'Have you seen a ghost? 'I've seen the the devil! gasped Jim. 'I'm I'm done with this here ghoul business. The parties got on speaking terms again. Dave was very warm, but Jim's language was worse.
There we extend, as arranged, into lines of half-companies, and go at 'em, making Douvrin our objective, and keeping the Hohenzollern and Fosse Eight upon our left." Fosse Eight is a mighty waste-heap, such as you may behold anywhere along the railway in the colliery districts between Glasgow and Edinburgh. From this distance, two miles away, the Fosse looks as big as North Berwick Law.
It's the shortest and straightest, and Jimmy's the freshest, anyway. Then there was another trouble. How were they to account for the size of the waste-heap of clay on the surface which would be the result of such an extraordinary length of drive or tunnel for shallow sinkings?
The finer gravel and the mullock goes through and down over a sloping board covered with blanket, and with ledges on it to catch the gold. The dish was mostly used for prospecting; large quantities of wash dirt was put through the horse-power 'puddling-machine', which there isn't room to describe here. ''Ello, Dave! said Pinter, after looking with mild surprise at the size of Dave's waste-heap.
About five o'clock a delegation came for someone to meet the men at a conference on the waste-heap back of the quartz mill. The superintendent refused to go, and asked Job to do so. "They dare not hurt you," he said. So between two armed, burly guards, Job went to look into the face of the strangest audience he had ever seen.
'Tryin' for the second bottom? 'Yes, said Dave, guttural. Pinter dropped his tools with a clatter at the foot of the waste-heap and scratched under his ear like an old cockatoo, which bird he resembled. Then he went to the windlass, and resting his hands on his knees, he peered down, while Dave stood by helpless and hopeless.
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