NOTES
Sandy Bar:—The imaginary mining-camp in which Bret Harte laid the scenes of many of his stories.
dungaree:—A coarse kind of unbleached cotton cloth.
I call:—An expression used in the game of euchre.
bowers:—Bower is from the German word bauer, meaning a peasant,—so called from the jack or knave; the right bower, in the game of euchre, is the jack of trumps, and the left bower is the other jack of the same color.
chaparral:—A thicket of scrub-oaks or thorny shrubs.
euchred:—Defeated, as in the game of euchre.
Judge Lynch:—A name used for the hurried judging and executing of a suspected person, by private citizens, without due process of law. A Virginian named Lynch is said to have been connected with the origin of the expression.
"diseased":—Tennessee's Partner means deceased.
sluicing:—A trough for water, fitted with gates and valves; it is used in washing out gold from the soil.