Jack Heaton, gold seeker

by A. Frederick Collins

THE CORYS

WITH PLEASANT MEMORIES OF

ALASKAN NIGHTS

CONTENTS
I	[How the Trouble Started]
II	[Ho! for the Gold Country!]
III	[On the Edge of Things]
IV	[When Bill and Black Pete Met]
V	[Outfitting at Circle]
VI	[Mush, You Huskies, Mush]
VII	[In Winter Quarters]
VIII	[On the Arctic Circle]
IX	[The Land of the Yeehats]
X	[On the Trail of Gold]
XI	[Gold, Gold, Nothing but Gold]
XII	[Back to the Haunts of Men]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• [“His efforts at snowshoeing were laughable in the extreme”]
• [“It was a team of dancers”]
• [“Black Pete did pull the trigger every chance he got”]
• [“‘I’ve conclooded they’ve got human brains just the same as you and me’”]
• [“‘These Indians cached the gold in a pile of stones’”]
• [“Bill drew his six-gun and emptied it into the head of the great beast”]
• [“‘Gold! Gold! Nothing but gold!!!’”]
• [“The ungainly craft pitched and rolled about like a piece of cork”]

JACK HEATON, GOLD SEEKER

CHAPTER I
HOW THE TROUBLE STARTED

“Well glory be! an’ if it ain’t Jack Heaton hisself. An’ right glad am I to see yuh, Jack. Bill will be mighty glad, too, for he’s that bugs on goin’ to South America for them di-am-onds. Sure he’s been talkin’ o’ nothin’ else these last two weeks gone Saturday. An’ how are yuh anyhow, Jack?”

It was Mrs. Adams, Bill’s warm-hearted and courageous mother, who had answered the bell and was greeting Jack in this whole-souled fashion.