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Some day, maybe, when I''m a old man, I''ll have sense enough to stay away from these new mining camps which springs up overnight like mushroomers.

There was that time in Teton Gulch, for instance. It was a ill-advised moment when I stopped there on my way back to the Humbolts from the Yavapai country.

I was a sheep for the shearing and I was shore plenty. And if some of the shearers got fatally hurt in the process, they needn''t to blame me. I was acting in self-defense all the way through.