See what followed that filing--over yonder?
I come this way on purpose, expecting to see those fires, Stanley.

If they hadn't been there we'd have gone on to our mine.

Now we'll go anywhere else." "Well, I'll just be teetotally damned!" Stanley remarked with great fervor.
"Trickling into your thick skull, is it?
Son, get a piece of charcoal.
Now you make black marks on that white rock as I tell you, to hold down my statements so they don't flutter away with the wind.

Ready?
Number One: Our copper samples didn't reach the assayer--make a long black mark ...

Therefore--make a short black mark ...