"If I had been goin' to stop I wouldn't 'a' started.

It was a dom fool they put up here when I was down with rheumatiz.

Since then they let me pick my substitute.
"Well," he said, as a few lights twinkled below them, "there she is.
Some pretty tough characters there, too.

But you ain't goin' to have no trouble with 'em.

All you got to do is to put the curb on 'em onct." As Keith looked about him in Gumbolt, the morning after his arrival, he found that his new home was only a rude mining-camp, raw and rugged; a few rows of frame houses, beginning to be supplanted by hasty brick structures, stretched up the hills on the sides of unpaved roads, dusty in dry weather and bottomless in wet.