[Burning Daylight by Jack London]@TWC D-Link book
Burning Daylight

CHAPTER XI
5/24

This highest one he bought in the Tivoli Saloon.

It was an upper claim on Eldorado, and when he agreed to the price, Jacob Wilkins, an old-timer just returned from a look at the moose-pasture, got up and left the room, saying:-- "Daylight, I've known you seven year, and you've always seemed sensible till now.

And now you're just letting them rob you right and left.
That's what it is--robbery.

Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco.

I just can't stay in the room and see you buncoed that way." "I tell you-all," Daylight answered, "Wilkins, Carmack's strike's so big that we-all can't see it all.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books