It does, ain't it the truth ?" His friend nodded silently.
"Well, so I stuck around and done about what I could, same as you, ain't that so, Wid?
I prospected some, but you know how hard it is to get any money into a mine, no matter what you've found fer a prospect.
I got along somehow--seems like folks didn't use to pester so much, the way they do to-day.

And you know onct I was just on the point of starting out fer Arizony with that old miner, Pop Haynes--do you suppose I'd struck anything if I'd of went down there ?" "Nobody can say if you would or you wouldn't," replied Wid.

"Fact is, you never got more'n half started." "Well, you see, this old feller, Pop Haynes, he'd been down in Arizony twenty years before, and he said there was lots of gold out there in the desert.

Well, we got a team hooked up, and a little flour and bacon, and we did start--now, I'll leave it to you, Wid, if we didn't.
We got as far as Big Springs, on the railroad.

What did we hear then?
Why, news comes up from down in Arizony that a railroad has went out into the desert, and that them mines has been discovered.