Part 13 (1/2)
”That's theht, nine, ten, eleven, and all as fresh as if they'd neverof 'em after that”
”Why, itback
”Shudder!” said Joses, ”why, I'd have starved a hundred times before I'd have made a juet some birds”
And very disconsolately and birdless, they made their way back to the camp
CHAPTER ELEVEN
BEARS AND FOR BEARS
Bart was sufficiently observing to notice, even amidst the rew more and more absorbed and dreamy every day When they first started he was always on the alert about theof the supplies and matters of that kind; but as he found in a short ti connected with the successful carrying out of their progress, that Joses was sternly exacting over the other men, and that Maude took a hi but the main object which he had in view
Hence it was then that he used to sling a sort of ga e-like hao off ”rock-chipping,” as Joses called it
”I don't see what's the good of his loading one barrel with shot, Master Bart, for he never brings in no gale likely bit yet”
”Do you think he ever will hit upon a good old or silver, Joses?” said Bart, as they were out hunting one day
”Well, Master Bart, you knohat sort of a fellow I aot five hundred cows, I should never reckon as they'd have five hundred calves next year, but just calculate as they wouldn't have one Then all that co at it fairly, I don't want to dishearten you,from sperience, I should say he wouldn't”
”And this will all be labour in vain, Joses?”
”Nay, I don't say that, Master Bart He old or silver; but I never knew afor one as did”
”But up northward there, men have discovered mines and made themselves enormously rich”
”To be sure they have, old or silver It was always found by accident like, and you andlead where we're trying after sheep or deer than he is with all his regular trying”
”You think there are mineral riches up in the mountains then?”
”Think, Master Bart! Oh, I'm sure of it But where is it to be found?
P'r'aps we're walking over it now, but there's no htfully, ”for everything about is so vast”
”That's about it, my lad, and all the harm I wish master is that he may find as much as he wants”
”I wish he may, Joses,” said Bart, ”or that I could find a mine for him and Miss Maude”
”Well, my lad, we'll keep our eyes open while we are out, only we have so s to push, and want to push on farther so as to get aood condition as they did”
There was good reason for this re been in very sterile spots, where the tall forbidding rocks were relieved by very little that was green, and patches of grass were few
But these were the regions most affected by the Doctor, who believed that they were theto nature's great storehouse, untouched as yet byto the top of so ravine, but alithout success, there being nothing to te of a very wealthy reater, for they were in e, and they knew by the coolness of the air that they must now be far above the plains