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A Daughter of the Snows

CHAPTER X
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"Which reminds me.

I've got a noospaper, an' only four weeks' old, the _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_." "Has the United States and Spain--" "Not so fast, not so fast!" The long Yankee waved his arms for silence, cutting off Frona's question which was following fast on that of Corliss.
"But have you read it ?" they both demanded.
"Unh huh, every line, advertisements an' all." "Then do tell me," Frona began.

"Has--" "Now you keep quiet, Miss Frona, till I tell you about it reg'lar.
That noospaper cost me fifty dollars--caught the man comin' in round the bend above Klondike City, an' bought it on the spot.

The dummy could a-got a hundred fer it, easy, if he'd held on till he made town--" "But what does it say?
Has--" "Ez I was sayin', that noospaper cost me fifty dollars.

It's the only one that come in.


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