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Show 49v r j- -old-timers still around. It sure is good to find you here every winter is 7 *-• J Jleard the story of you finding the young 'en here." "Dream Mine was paying good just before i t caved," Dad said. "Too bad, too bad to lose both parents that young. I raised my boy alone?" "Sure am ©lad I got in here before that storm h i t . I could see i t building up and I knew if I didn't get over the Sierras before she h i t I just maybe wouldn't-travelled a ll night and carried some ;b.fi &he grub and my fiddle when the donkey was givin' out. Never will t r y that pass again after September. I went right to bed when I got here and slept nearly twenty-four hours." Bill liked Jan, and he nodded and listened to him.1. Jan had a faint clipped accent and always carried his violin with him. • He'd play for them as the evening wore on, and, if the night moved along just right, he'd sing along with the v i o l i n . Bill looked a t Jan's violin on the table beside him and thought that he'd never heard one with such a sweet tone and that could say as much to you. "Jan I'm sure anxious to hear you s t a r t tuning up this f i d d l e ." "You're l i s t e n i n g to my playin' goes a long ways back-that i t does." Jan picked up his violin? tuned i t a l i t t le |