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Updated: June 20, 2025
"You may be a number one, tip-top minin' expert, all right all right," the dog-musher delivered himself oracularly, "but you missed the chance of your life when you was a boy an' didn't run off an' join a circus." White Fang snarled at the sound of his voice, but this time did not leap away from under the hand that was caressing his head and the back of his neck with long, soothing strokes.
In the large porch in the centre of the buildin' is a high tower, made at the bottom of all sorts of minerals, and trimmed off handsome and appropriate; and the tower that shoots up from this foundation is made of all sorts of machines employed in minin'. From this centre aisles and avenues branch off in every direction.
He was one o' these nervous, fretty fellers what like to do their own drivin', an' he makes him a set o' minin' tools out of a tin saucepan an' a bed-castor, an' runs a level from his own cell into Eddie's an' that was the queer, scratchin' sound that made Eddie decide not to kill himself.
Him and Moose had some trouble once over some minin' ground, an' Mart kinda takes it out on all Moose's friends, even if they's only boys an' dogs, don't he, Baldy?" And Baldy wagged that he certainly did. "Now the cook says they've got work dogs enough belongin' ter the claim ter feed, without supportin' my mangy cur in idleness. Mr.
All of 'em knew something; things ain't done secret in a minin' camp, an' all the boys got interested. Well, they finally agreed to play five hands o' draw for the first chance to propose. If the lucky one got the girl he was to pay the loser half the profits. If he lost an' the second feller got the girl on his proposal, he was to get mine an' girl both.
On steaming seaward the next morning desolation, destruction, and wreck were everywhere manifest. In due course we reached Nagasaki. In the bay was the Russian iron-clad, "Minin," a ship if all we hear about her be true capable of blowing the "Iron Duke" sky-high.
Ed went away to school, winters down to Boston, to a school of tech tech well, a place where they taught him engineerin' an' minin' an' such. Summers he worked in a mill over to Lansing." "Is Miss Walton well off?" "Only tolerable, I guess. She's got that house and what little money was saved out of her father's smash-up." "Where does she live when she's not here, Mr. Prout?" "New York.
It's different, minin' so, to what it was when I was a boy at Hamilton. But I'm minded, when I think of Butte, and the great copper mines there, of the thing I'm chiefly thinking of in writing this book. I was in Butte during the war after America had come in. 'Deed, and it was just before the Huns made their last bid, and thought to break the British line. Ye mind yon days in the spring of 1918?
They was Injuns here thin. But they wasn't anny mines I cud see. They was mud to be shovelled an' dhrays to be dhruv an' beats to be walked. I choose th' dhray; f'r I was niver cut out f'r a copper, an' I'd had me fill iv excavatin'. An' I dhruv th' dhray till I wint into business. "Me experyence with goold minin' is it's always in th' nex' county.
In the early days of a minin' boom there's a lot of trouble. A miner is a crazy fellar often. He'll dig a hole, then move on to dig another. Then if some other prospector comes along to find gold on his last diggin's he yells claim jumpin'. As a matter of fact most of them haven't a real claim till they find gold. An' all that makes the trouble."
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