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Show 80 PERSONAL ADVENTURES with a pretty good 'find,' she, good woman, laughed outright at his gold-washing, for her shirt-washing had realized, during the same period, nearly double the value in dollars of the ore he had found." I coincided in the opinion of my friend, that industry of any kind, applied in these districts to alleviate the privations or add to the comforts of tl1e miners, offered a far readier source of riches than the gold-pockets themselves ; and that a steady application to some practical mode of meeting the circumstances in which they 'vere placed was a surer method of securing a competency than slaving at the mines. It was late before Halliday and I returned to our camp. We were neither of us in good spirits, and could not compose ourselves to sleep, so much were we excited by the novelty of our position, and so intense was the cold. " I tell you what," said he, as he tossed about under his blanket; "this mining, or goldhunting, is not what I thought it was, nor what it has been represented to be. I worked LIFE AT 'fHE "DlGGINS"-!WPPER TIM~. |