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a good prospector, just ’cos he sees things instead o’
lookin’ at em. Most fellers looks at someth’n and
sees noth’n, that’s their trouble. But, now, this book;
it took a hell of a time to read it once, and I must ’a’
read it three times easy afore I understood what he
was getting at. How one feller could ’a’ thought of
all that stuff sure beats me!”

““He’s still thinking, I believe.”

‘Now by God, you can’t tell me he knows
more’n he’s got in that there cyclopsedia. The
bugger must have a head like a bloody pumpkin!”

There was a sudden shouting outside. Someone
got up and locked the door.

‘There are one or two things still unexplained by
Mr. Wells, Bill, and one of them is why God ever
invented Siwashes.”’

“Or this hole-in-the-wall, either; Port Said of
Canada, someone called it. I c’d find a better name.
Hope it burns up!”

“Well, they’ve tried that once or twice this winter.

Were you here when the shed got roasted?”

“Yes, but unfortoonately the wind weren’t blow-

in’ the right way!”