"'Tarnation bad as yer supper is, it is the first square meal I've eat, for three days."
"How war that?" Butch' asked.
"Yer see, in the mines there war nothing to get for love or money. And here, I guess, there's darned little love unless yer can buy it."
"We heard that, up here, you had only to turn a shovel to find gold."
"And b'lieved it, as I did," he quietly growled out.
"Yer don't mean to say there are none," ejaculated Ben.
"I guess yer won't do more than any o' the rest on us."
"But, some must have had a fair share of success," I said.
"Why d'yer think so, Captain?" he drawled out, nasally.
"From the row about the diggings that has been made through the whole of the West."