“We’ve gone to work,” answered Tom.
“That must be the claim the old man used to run.”
“Very likely. I thought some one must have been at work here before.”
“Likely you’ll get discouraged and go off, as he did.”
“We’ll try to make enough to pay our board. That’ll keep us here, even if we don’t succeed very well.”
“I never like digging for gold,” said Crambo. “It made my back ache.”
“Grant and I will try it awhile.”
Mr. Crambo looked on awhile and then sauntered away. It made him uncomfortable to see others work hard. He became fatigued himself out of sympathy.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE BEGINNING OF SUCCESS.
Tom and Grant met with little success during the first two days, and were correspondingly disappointed. After all the high hopes with which they had entered upon this new enterprise, it was certainly discouraging to realize scarcely more than at Howe’s Gulch. But on the third day they struck a “pocket,” and in the next two days took out five hundred dollars.