Silver and Gold

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Coolidge Dane. Silver and Gold

Silver and Gold

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE GROUND-HOG

7CHAPTER II. BIG BOY

16CHAPTER III. HOBO STUFF

23CHAPTER IV. CASH

33CHAPTER V. MOTHER TRIGEDGO

42CHAPTER VI. THE ORACULUM

53CHAPTER VII. THE EMINENT BUTTINSKY

61CHAPTER VIII. THE SILVER TREASURE

72CHAPTER IX. BIBLE-BACK MURRAY

81CHAPTER X. SIGNS AND OMENS

92CHAPTER XI. THE LADY OF THE SYCAMORES

100CHAPTER XII. STEEL ON STEEL

108CHAPTER XIII. SWEDE LUCK

119CHAPTER XIV. THE STRIKE

128CHAPTER XV. A NIGHT FOR LOVE

138CHAPTER XVI. A FRIEND

147CHAPTER XVII. BROKE

154CHAPTER XVIII. THE HAND OF FATE

161CHAPTER XIX. THE MAN-KILLER

170CHAPTER XX. JUMPERS AND TENORS

180CHAPTER XXI. BROKE AGAIN

189CHAPTER XXII. THE ROCK-DRILLING CONTEST

200CHAPTER XXIII. THE HEART OF HIS BELOVED

210CHAPTER XXIV. COLONEL DODGE

219CHAPTER XXV. THE ANSWER

231CHAPTER XXVI. THE COURSE OF THE LAW

238CHAPTER XXVII. LIKE A HOG ON ICE

245CHAPTER XXVIII. PAROLE

251CHAPTER XXIX. THE INTERPRETATION THEREOF

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Dane Coolidge

A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp

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“Danged good!” pronounced the hobo licking the tips of his fingers and Old Bunk tapped him on the knee.

“Say,” he said, “seeing the way you whipped that jasper puts me in mind of a feller back in Texas. He was a big, two-fisted hombre, one of these Texas bad-men that was always getting drunk and starting in to clean up the town; and he had all the natives bluffed. Well, he was in the saloon one day, telling how many men he’d killed, when a little guy dropped in that had just come to town, and he seemed to take a great interest. He kept edging up closer, sharpening the blade of his jack-knife on one of these here little pocket whetstones, until finally he reached over and cut a notch in the bad man’s ear.

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