HOGAN'S DISCONTENT "Why don't luck come to me ?" muttered Hogan to himself.

"That green country boy has made a fortune, while I, an experienced man of the world, have to live from hand to mouth.

It's an outrage!" The parties to whom Joe and his partner sold their claim were responsible men who had been fortunate in mining and had a bank-account in San Francisco.
"We'll give you an order on our banker," they proposed.
"That will suit me better than money down," said Joe.

"I shall start for San Francisco to-morrow, having other business there that I need to look after." "I'll go too, Joe," said Joshua.

"With my share of the purchase-money and the nugget, I'm worth, nigh on to five thousand dollars.