41 Lure O Gold 1904

The Lure o
Gold
port they ll put it in the ashes, and chuck it out of the
ash chute into a small boat alongside. Oh, there s
hundreds of places,
when you think em all over, but
the most likely place of all, to my notion, is down in
the lower hold under that planking. I know we ve
looked about quite a bit down there already, but we
haven t taken up any planks, except a piece or two.
When those planks come up,
if
they ever do though
it s unsafe, to my notion, taking the stiffening out of
the bottom in that way you want to be on hand, my
boy, with your eyes peeled.
I ll be there, too. What
you want to look out for is these dead-broke miners,
coming home from Nome. They re just as likely to
sneak your dust as anybody, and a little more so. When
you think how disappointed they are, with nothing to
show for all their season s work but an empty poke and
a few frost-bites, you may understand how readily
some of them would take the chance of getting hold of
that dust and having something real big and substan
tial to take home."
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