For the rest, when the first ten or six made packs and started, they was worked up and oozing excitement at every pore.

Then some of the old prospectors got a hunch there was something doing; so they just naturally up stakes and tagged along.

Always doing that, old miner is.

That's what makes the rushes and stampedes you hear about." "Then we're to do nothing just now but to shun mind-readers, write no letters, and not talk in our sleep ?" "Just so," agreed Pete.

"If my saddle could talk, I'd burn it.