. A woman who went to Alaska . n-sorted chiefly with those who were fast bringinghim down to their level. There was the girl with pretty black eyes, lady-like movements, low voice, and exquisite blue-eyed, pretty little blonde, with infantile com-plexion, small hands and feet, and wearing a tailor-made suit attracted considerable attention. Shewas fond of cigarettes and smoked many times aday, though she only looked sweet sixteen. Theywere both dance-house girls. There was a young and handsome Englishmanin the triggest of dude toggery, but having a squawwife and three children, as
. A woman who went to Alaska . n-sorted chiefly with those who were fast bringinghim down to their level. There was the girl with pretty black eyes, lady-like movements, low voice, and exquisite blue-eyed, pretty little blonde, with infantile com-plexion, small hands and feet, and wearing a tailor-made suit attracted considerable attention. Shewas fond of cigarettes and smoked many times aday, though she only looked sweet sixteen. Theywere both dance-house girls. There was a young and handsome Englishmanin the triggest of dude toggery, but having a squawwife and three children, as well as older men at of similar broods. The long tables were spread two or three timesat each meal, as several hundred people were to befed. A different class, and a worse one if possible, wasmet with at these late meals. Do you see that short,fat woman over there with the bleared eyes, andthe neck of a prize fighter? She is a Dawsonsaloonkeeper, and is now on her way to Nome. But there were a number of people on the. A Woman Who Went—To Alaska 53 steamer not properly belonging to this set, andafter supper a few usually gathered in one cornerto listen to each others experiences in the farNorthwest. Some were tales of hardship, sicknessand death; some of hair-breadth escapes from thejaws of an Arctic winter, or from shipwreck. Onetold of having, two years before, paid $175 for fivesacks of flour in the Klondike; selling the same, afew days later, for $500. Stories of rich strikeswere related; how one man, while drunk, was per-suaded by his associates to trade a valuable claimfor one apparently worthless; his indescribablefeelings the next day and until he had prospectedthe so-called worthless claim, when it proved tentimes richer than the first one. A little middle-aged Norwegian woman told herstory with great gusto. She had sailed from Seattletwo years before with Mayor Woods expedition,getting as far as a point on the Yukon River twohundred miles below Rampart City
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