"Ain't I getting rid of it?"
"Not fast enough; quick, out with it!"
"Don't be impatient, sons, patience is a great virtue. It's taken me nigh to fifty years' hard prospecting to make a strike—and you fellows want me to tell you all about it in fifty minutes! How many minutes are there in fifty years?"
"You old fool, you'd better quit playing with us."
"Who wants to play with you?"
"You're teasing us; now quit! What river is this where you found the gold?"
"Well, it's the south fork of the north branch of the south fork of the south branch——"
"Oh, hell!" interrupted one of the impatient ones.
"There now, just when I get going you fellows spoil it all. Remember, it took fifty years almost——"
"And it will take you fifty years to tell us where you did find it."