. Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal. Cut-throatJack, nor did he object to the appellation; he wasmore feared in the mines than I should have supposedany man to have been, but he was always in areckless, half-drunken state, and those who preferredto avoid a deadly quarrel would leave any house heentered. He was invariably armed, and alwaysboastful. One night as Thomas was watching a stack-firenear the tents, in which a mass of quartz was beingpurposely brought to a white heat for experimentalpurposes, Cut-throat Jack swaggered up to him, andinformed him that he inten
. Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal. Cut-throatJack, nor did he object to the appellation; he wasmore feared in the mines than I should have supposedany man to have been, but he was always in areckless, half-drunken state, and those who preferredto avoid a deadly quarrel would leave any house heentered. He was invariably armed, and alwaysboastful. One night as Thomas was watching a stack-firenear the tents, in which a mass of quartz was beingpurposely brought to a white heat for experimentalpurposes, Cut-throat Jack swaggered up to him, andinformed him that he intended to pass the night inour shanty (Rowe and I being at Sonora). To thisThomas objected, upon which Cut-throat made sucha warlike demonstration that Thomas very properlyknocked him down. Jack unfortunately fell on thered-hot quartz, and the sensation was so new to himthat, as soon as he could withdraw himself, he drewneither pistol nor knife, but was instantly lost to sightin the surrounding gloom, and never swaggered intoour camp again from that night In our immediate neiglibom^liood we had threeclasses of miners, Mexicans, French, and Chinese,and their peculiarities of race were so marked that Ishall record them. The Greasers, which term includes all SpanishAmericans, will pass the night and early morning inworking at their claims, and then devote the day to FRENCH MINERS—JOHI^ CHINAMAN. 331 gambling and sleeping, and the evening to a Fandangoor a horse-stealing excursion; a Mexican in the mineshas no idea of saving money, but, like the water-carrier of Bagdad, he will work one half of the daythat he may spend the other half in indulgence. The French, among whom are many Parisians,will work in a quiet and tolerably steady mannerif nothing unusual occurs to disturb them ; but, ifby chance a strange Frenchman should arrive intheir camp, or an old copy of the Moniteur shouldreach them, the picks and spades are relinquished forthe day, and all devote themselves to discu
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