Category: Short Stories
It was a remark dropped by a forgotten someone in a prospector's hut one night, years and years ago, when we had exhausted snakes and hunting, lucky strikes and escapes, and had got away into coincidences. One of the party had been telling us an experience of his. He was intro...
"Moodie's" was concession ground, and belonged to a company; but as "findings is keepings" is the first law of the prospector, there were quite a number of people, otherwise hon...
6. CHAPTER SIX.It was Christmas Day at New Rush--the Christmas of '73. No merry peals rang out to celebrate the occasion--there were no bells. The streets were not decorated with festoons or b...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.I met Cassidy under trying circumstances. But it worked out all right eventually, principally because, so far as I knew him--and that got to be pretty well--Cassidy was not amen...
2. CHAPTER TWO.We were transport-riders trekking with loads from Delagoa Bay to Lydenburg, trekking slowly through the hot, bushy, low veld, doing our fifteen to twenty miles a day. The roads...
1. CHAPTER ONE.It was a remark dropped by a forgotten someone in a prospector's hut one night, years and years ago, when we had exhausted snakes and hunting, lucky strikes and escapes, and had...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.Everyone remembers the rush to De Kaap some years ago. How everyone said that everyone else would make fortunes in half no time, and the country would be saved! Well, my brother...