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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;Finding is Keeping&quot;<br />

venturers<br />

men who had been mere camp-followers,<br />

leeches upon the lucky<br />

and the industrious the<br />

gamblers, the monte-players, the sharpers,<br />

returning to<br />

who were<br />

a warmer climate for the winter season.<br />

These men would not hesitate to put into force the rule<br />

of &quot;finding<br />

is keeping.&quot; Yes, the riff-raff, the rag<br />

tag<br />

and the bobtail who had been mere idlers on the<br />

golden beach, and whom we had on board in plenty<br />

&quot;finding is keeping&quot; would be a rule easy of applica<br />

tion with them in a place where they had had to work<br />

so hard with axe and saw and cold chisel.<br />

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