. Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal. hey wereswaggering, our appetites were very large, but for allthat we were so happy that even the pleasures of the little valley fell into insignificance before those ofour Tuttletonian life; and this arose in a greatmeasure from the fact that we all entertained a strongbelief, that one day or other our labour would berewarded. Who talks of hope and disappointment in the samebreath? Shall a day of the one efface or tarnishthe recollection of a years happiness brightened bythe other?—Not with me whilst I live. See here,now, boys,
. Mountains and molehills; or, Recollections of a burnt journal. hey wereswaggering, our appetites were very large, but for allthat we were so happy that even the pleasures of the little valley fell into insignificance before those ofour Tuttletonian life; and this arose in a greatmeasure from the fact that we all entertained a strongbelief, that one day or other our labour would berewarded. Who talks of hope and disappointment in the samebreath? Shall a day of the one efface or tarnishthe recollection of a years happiness brightened bythe other?—Not with me whilst I live. See here,now, boys, said a Tuttletonian miner, one day, ashe held up to an admiring crowd a small and well-constructed ladys boot. The chunk aint foundthat can buy this boot; taint for sale, no-how I A ladys boot to you, or I, reader, is not muchunless we are married and have to pay for a pairoccasionally; but so long as we can associate ourhopes of earthly happiness for the future withsome emblem held out to us even at arms length,as was the miners ladys boot, we may go on u 2. our way to work as did his gratified spectators morecheerfully and Hght of heart. When a man recals some sensation with more thanordinary pleasure, it is very usual for him, particu-larly if he is a writer of travels, to ask you if youhave experienced the same. Says one reader, didyou ever witness a sun-set from Chimborazo ? Saysthe other reader, did you ever eat a mangostein ? Unfortunately the reader is unable to reply until thedescription of these wonders has been have alluded to this custom in excuse for askingthe reader if he ever groomed his own horse andderived pleasure from it ? If not, I recommend him MAINSPRING—MEXICAN ROBBERS. 293 after he has managed Chiiiiborazo and the mangosteinto try it. Mainsprings coat was daily rubbed byme, when my own coat hung neglected on a peg;but the fact is, he was a very handsome horse, andin the mines such a rarity is a passport. With thenatural vanity of man, I
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