Gulf and Glacier

dly been asleep five minutes, wh

ranov is on the whar

vious year, Tom sprang up hastily, crying out, "Is there a fire?" Then he saw his fa

he scrambled into his thick traveling suit.

ers and mothers who get up early to see their children start, and sit up late to welcome them home! How little we t

e out in the sweet morning air, and, stepping softly and speaking in low tones, not to disturb t

coming, over the dark eastern hills. It would be an hour or mor

ff over the quiet Sound, to the dim blue mountains beyond. At his feet lay a larg

r that belied his previous slouching attitude and straggling, iron-gray h

the guns-we sha'n't need to load 'em much before noon. Tie a

rovisions?" ask

ed Solomon. "Al

crimson handkerchief-which looked remarkably like one worn by Kittie the day

member, if you are delayed, I shall not leave Juneau without you. Allow

They turned away, and passing around the building

ow hill, back of the town. They waved their hats t

een greatly disinclined to consent to the hunt, but she was a strong woman, and was afrai

self the marvelous valley whose sands are so filled with precious metal that miners for years

owerful stream of water, or "hydraulicking," as he called it. The stream plunged into the sand in a deep pit, and then rush

e gold out?" a

n the upper side of the riffles is placed a quantity of quicksilver for which the gold has such an affinity (it sinks to the bottom of the stream)

in to work?" ask

It's according to the season. Of course we can't get our power unti

oon took the ferry boat to Douglas Island, where they once more inspected the great treadwel

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he crushers was so great that the loudest shout could not be heard. Randolph and Mr. Percival coul

s arm, to walk slowly along the main street of Juneau. There were a number of fur stores, and others wit

e them; baskets, carvings, silver bracelets, and a queer kind of orange-color

on, finely carved, with some

bird is it?" ask

is head, to show he

y, and a little more loudly, as one is apt to

meaning of the question, but was a

he flapped his arms like w

nd the vendor nodded his head violently, mu

w soon will they return? Have they

that the steamer would sail at three in the afternoon, the re

f delay was an additional expense to the company; and besides, certain perilous straits ahead

with it no sign

ew the situation and were acquainted with the boys, gathered on deck, gazing anxiously

me for the boat. The Queen was to touch here, contrary to its usual custom, to take a shipment of bullion on its way back to the States. The party could mana

harf with the three portmanteaus, and the Queen, giving

lodgings for himself near by, and then repaired directly to the wharf, wh

lanks in the golden twilight until nearly midnight, when he slowly retraced his steps to his lodgings, full of fore

ut his repeated and anxious inquiries fai

ng a relief party, to start up the mountain