You haven't seemed to be thinking much about it, lately." "A feller can prospect," Casey declared, "when he can't do nothin' else." And he added rather convincingly, "Good jobs is scarce, out this way.

I'd be a fool to pass up this one, when I'd have the hull winter left fer prospectin'." "And what about those partners of yours ?" "Oh, them ?" Casey hesitated, tempted perhaps to tell the truth.

"Oh, they've quit on me.

They quit right away after I went to work.

We--we had a kinda fuss, and they've went back to town." He stopped and added with a sigh of relief, "We can just as well count them out, fr'm now on--an' fergit about 'em." "Oh," said the Little Woman, and smiled to herself.