The Long Journey Home (2011)
“a gold mine … It had been exciting, at first. John had rented a horse at the livery stable and followed the directions written out for him by the poker-playing miner.
“It ain’t been worked for a while,” the man had warned. “It ain’t much … . There’s a tunnel in pretty good shape. About gold, I can’t say. I’ve never really worked it. You know minin’?”
“No.”
“Well, you can learn, I guess. All of us did, sometime. You need to go out and take a look, talk to somebody at an assay office. They’ll hel...p you. They’ll weigh out your dust, too. You got that little bag of dust I was bettin’ with last night?”
“Yes … That’s from the mine?”
“No, not the Boar’s Nest. Another place. But there’s gold in them hills.”
John had taken most of the day to ride out to the mine. Even there, he had trouble finding it. There were bushes and shrubs, even a small tree growing in front of the tunnel opening. Not very impressive.
The day was late, and he made camp in order to get settled in before dark.MoreLess
“It ain’t been worked for a while,” the man had warned. “It ain’t much … . There’s a tunnel in pretty good shape. About gold, I can’t say. I’ve never really worked it. You know minin’?”
“No.”
“Well, you can learn, I guess. All of us did, sometime. You need to go out and take a look, talk to somebody at an assay office. They’ll hel...p you. They’ll weigh out your dust, too. You got that little bag of dust I was bettin’ with last night?”
“Yes … That’s from the mine?”
“No, not the Boar’s Nest. Another place. But there’s gold in them hills.”
John had taken most of the day to ride out to the mine. Even there, he had trouble finding it. There were bushes and shrubs, even a small tree growing in front of the tunnel opening. Not very impressive.
The day was late, and he made camp in order to get settled in before dark.MoreLess
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