' 'Yea. once. Two years ago I went down^into Death Valley to And the Breyfogle^mine.'^^ ^Did vou find it^
Yes; l found it. and a big thing it is,^Why, sir. it crops out ns high as this house^nnd is over three hundred feet wide. You^can 'race tin so high cropping! for a mile^right along through the level desert; and^neb! you never saw anything like it. The^whole ledge is on, solid mass of horn silver^into which you can stick your knife as easv^yon could into a bar of'soft lead.'^'^ 'Did you locate it'/' I mildly inquired.^'^ 'No. sir, 1 did not locate it. I was not^hunting for silver mines just at that time:^it was water I wanted. I had been without^water for eight day-., and my tongue win^protruding from my mouth two feet or^more. No. young man. gold will not bring^warmth and fis,a m ., snowstorm, nor will^lilver bring watir id n deaert. No more^mining or prospect ing foi me.'
wayback. When there have beeu any^work to do. I has done it. When there has^lieen any votin^ to do, I has voted earlv and^often. W hi n then' has lieen any tight in^ to^do 1 has been iu the thick of it. 1 arc above^proof, old line, and tax paid. And I has^si ed many chances, too. I has seed the r, -^publicans up. 1 has .,-ed the democrats up.^Hut 1 is yet to sec the nigger up. 't'other^night 1 had a dream. | drempt that I died^and wi ut to heaven. When I got to de^pearly gates, ole St. I'eter he sn\s:
Who'sdnr^^ savs he
AbramJiisiht.^ says I.
lavou mounted, or is vou afoot r^ savs^he.
1is afoot,^ savs L
Wellyon can't git in here.^ says he.^^Nobody's Towed in here *cept them as^come mounted.^ suys he.
