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Stories From Germany. I. Gold-Seekers and Bread-Winners, by F. Hoffmann. Ii. the Cobbler, the Clerk, and the Lawyer of Leibstein, by G.
Stories From Germany I GoldSeekers and BreadWinners by F Hoffmann Ii the Cobbler the Clerk and the Lawyer of Leibstein by G Author:Franz Hoffmann Title: Stories From Germany. I. Gold-Seekers and Bread-Winners, by F. Hoffmann. Ii. the Cobbler, the Clerk, and the Lawyer of Leibstein, by G. Nieritz. Tr. by A. Harwood General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1868 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ty... more »pos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. tfre Cramp, '' Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire." FEW weeks later, six travel-worn men were passing through a wide, lonely valley lying to the eastward of the Rio Sacramento. They carried heavy wallets on their backs, and were laden with pickaxes, spades, mattocks, blankets, and other stores. Besides these, one carried the canvas for a tent, another a large kettle for boiling water, and a third the wooden cradle in which the gold must be washed. Each had a weapon over his shoulder, and a revolver, or in its stead, a large knife attached to his girdle. They must have been already many days on the way, for their clothes looked shabby and begrimed. On this day they must (judging from appearances) have left a good many miles behind them since morning, for they were dragging themselves along slowly and with effort. Four of the company are already known to us -- Wolf, Anton, Billy, and Kollmann; the other two were a Frenchman, who announced himself of noble birth, and an East Indian sailor, an uncommonly robust and powerful man, who by his own account had sailed over nearly all seas. His manner was rough and noisy, and he was fond of bragging, with his hand on his knife, of his many and marvellous fights. Billy, Wolf, and Anton all instinctively held aloof from him, and the East Indian himself seemed to prefer Kollmann's company to theirs. It mus...« less