Digging for Gold: Adventures in California

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Robert Michael Ballantyne. Digging for Gold: Adventures in California

Chapter One. Adventures in California. Begins with Differences of Opinion

Chapter Two. Frank discusses his Prospects with a Friend

Chapter Three. A Visit to the Diggings resolved on. Terrible Commencement of the Journey

Chapter Four. Describes an Incident of Devouring Interest, an Unexpected Visit, and a Violent Assault

Chapter Five. The Travellers meet with Indians, and are led to wish that they had not gone seeking for Gold

Chapter Six. Arrival at the Gold-Fields, and Lessons in Gold-Washing received

Chapter Seven. Gives the Result of the First Day’s Digging, and shows the Powerful Effect of Lynch-Law

Chapter Eight. Frank and Joe take to Wandering; See some Wonderful Things, and have a Narrow Escape

Chapter Nine. Conclusion

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We pass over our hero’s long voyage round “the Horn,” and introduce him in a totally new scene and under widely different circumstances—seated near a magnificent tree of which he is making a study, and clad in a white linen coat and pantaloons and a broad-brimmed straw hat.

Just the day before, the “House” to which he had been sent had failed. Two years had he spent in grinding at its account books, perched on a three-legged stool, and now he found himself suddenly cast loose on the world. Of course when the stool was knocked from under him his salary was stopped, and he was told by his employers that it would be necessary for him to go elsewhere to earn a subsistence.

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“Stop! if you and I are to be companions in trouble, you must not call me Mister Frank, you must drop the mister.”

“Then I won’t go with ’e, sir, that’s all about it,” said Joe firmly.

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