41 Lure O Gold 1904

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upper deck." [98]
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The Lure o
Gold
besides poetry.
Nome?"
How did you
come to be stranded at
"Oh, the beach claims was all taken up,"
said the
pink-faced man, replying for his partner,
didn t have no money to buy anybody out."
and we
"Well, there were the tundra and the creeks," sug
gested the Doctor.
"
Yes," said the poet, but it takes capital
to work on
the creeks, and the tundra is
very uncertain. We
could not afford to buy the costly machinery
out the ice, and all that. But we may
going below to try to raise money, you know."
to thaw
return. We re
"
And, meantime, all you can do is to play cards and
write poetry,"
remarked the Doctor, with a smile of
good-fellowship that incensed me, so ill
applied
did it
seem in this place.
"
Yes, I ve got two or three pieces started.
May be
I can sell em when I get below, and raise a little
money
that way. Don t
you think The Alaskan Moon
would go well, set to music ?
He reproduced the dirtywhite
sheets and seemed anxious to read the jingle again.
"It
might,"
said the Doctor, moving
off. "Goodday,
gentlemen. I must go and see a patient on the