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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;<br />

The <strong>Lure</strong> o 9<br />

<strong>Gold</strong><br />

I can go aboard the lighter.<br />

Then if<br />

you<br />

want to lend<br />

me a hand with my box I shall be glad of your assist<br />

ance.&quot;<br />

&quot;Nome is a great place,&quot;<br />

ventured the pink-faced<br />

man, nodding toward the town. &quot;Strangest mining<br />

camp I was ever in, and I ve been pretty much all over<br />

the coast.<br />

Everybody is jumping everybody s claim<br />

now.<br />

My<br />

claim-jumpers.<br />

friend here has written some verses on the<br />

Maybe you<br />

d like to hear them.&quot;<br />

I was not in the mood to have poetry read to me, and<br />

particularly by a one-eyed man, but the poet produced<br />

his little<br />

manuscript from his inside coat pocket and<br />

read his verse with great gusto and an indescribable<br />

sing-song,<br />

while the other passengers gathered about.<br />

At the close of the reading of the jingle<br />

for it was<br />

hardly more<br />

from the crowd.<br />

miner.<br />

many<br />

there were some strong notes of assent<br />

Pretty good that sizes em up great,&quot;<br />

said one<br />

&quot;<br />

They run me out all right they<br />

for me.&quot;<br />

&quot;The<br />

poetry is all said another.<br />

right,&quot;<br />

&quot;<br />

Ain t it<br />

good ?<br />

&quot;<br />

ing me. &quot;And it s dead easy<br />

were too<br />

asked the pink-faced man, address<br />

for him to write such<br />

things. He just dashes em off like it was no trouble<br />

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