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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;<br />

Aw<br />

XVIII<br />

THE HEAT OF THE GOLD-HUNT<br />

r<br />

IT was rip<br />

and tear, clink and clank. Where the<br />

planks were short, as they were in some sections of the<br />

floor,<br />

there was a scramble of the workers to see who<br />

could raise the most of them. I saw one man lie flat<br />

upon the deck and run his long arm back under the<br />

flooring and move it all about, and I heard some of the<br />

passengers expostulating :<br />

&quot;<br />

That ain t fair!&quot;<br />

!<br />

He wants to hog it all ! &quot;<br />

Let<br />

&quot;<br />

up on &quot;<br />

fudgin there, you !<br />

The man against whom all this was aimed rolled<br />

over and arose, and in the light of a lantern I saw his<br />

face. It was that of my worthy<br />

friend Bill of the<br />

lighter. During all the progress of the search, which,<br />

from the remarks I had heard, seemed to constitute<br />

one prolonged indignity to me, my blood had not boiled<br />

quite so fiercely<br />

as it did when I saw that fellow Bill<br />

there between-decks, and knew that he was so bent

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