A good old scout

Solomons, Theodore · 1947

It was a question of sentiment--which had the more genuine, the old-timer or the more modern prospector. When a rich haul of gold was at stake, which man would cast aside his finer feelings and become a heartless grabber? “It’s a land a-flowin’ with milk and money,” quoted old “Nock” Whipple, in a high and hopeful voice, “Jest as the Good Book says. Only the conditions is different. You got ter stew down the berries to git the honey--and it’s some puckery. Fer the milk--why, jest catch a caribou or a cow moose.”…

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