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Show 218 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. pay the cost. Happy once more! It seemed that a world had rolled from my shoulders. And now we were sure we had cut our wisdom-teeth and could with perfect composure decline ' a piece of the pie.' " But day in and day out the news of new discoveries were poured into our ears, and we would have been anomalies in the human race if we had not become inoculated with the disease. "A few days later I found myself on a horse going to see a claim on Sheep mountain in the Ten Mile district. This was the true Golconda! But it proved to be a greater fraud than the other. "All that summer I was grasping at something that, like the fairy gold, left nothing but leaves and sticks in the hand. However, by being faithful to the old proverb, ' if at first you don't succeed, try, try, again,' I finally stumbled on some good mining property." CHAPTER XLVII. THE PIONEER LIFE OF MRS. AUGUSTA TABOR. I was pleased to receive a call from Mrs. Augusta Tabor, who was then visiting in Leadville. She is a frail, delicate looking woman, with pleasing, lady-like manners. I give the story of her frontier life in order to convey an idea of the hardships endured by the pioneer women. "My first acquaintance with Horace Austin Warner Tabor came about in this way: My father, a stone contractor, took the train one morning in August, 1853, for Boston, to hire stone-cutters. When about sixty miles from home two young men entered the train, one of them taking a seat by my father. In conversation it was de- |