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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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&quot;<br />

Guarding the<br />

Beach<br />

tank &quot;Ay you don t got any rights to coom a-muddlin<br />

mit deesen bokes,&quot; he said, angrily, shaking his<br />

white hair. &quot;You don t got any rights. I vait two<br />

hours to get me dis bokes on deesen boats, and I don t<br />

vant no mans muddlin mit it.&quot;<br />

When the inspectors saw the markings, one of them<br />

said:<br />

&quot;It s Lindbloom s. He s one of the biggest miners<br />

up on Anvil Creek. It s all right, my he friend,&quot; added,<br />

in pacific tones to the Swede. We re only doing our<br />

duty.&quot;<br />

And the vigilant officers certainly did all that<br />

reasonably be expected of them.<br />

fied.<br />

might<br />

But I was not satis<br />

I could have wished that every trunk and package<br />

brought aboard might be opened<br />

and its contents ex<br />

plored, that my gold might be found and restored to me.<br />

Little Yohara, who was keeping close watch, aston<br />

ished us all<br />

by madly springing upon a tall passenger<br />

as he stepped upon the lighter s<br />

plank to go aboard.<br />

The Jap grasped the man by the tail of his long, loosely<br />

hanging parka. The passenger protested, and used<br />

violent language while he tried to shake off the closely<br />

clinging Jap; but the little fellow had a grip like a bull<br />

terrier, and would not let go.<br />

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