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Show I DICK AND PICK IN EUREKA. "Cert'nly I took Pick to Eureka," said Dick, "and you ought t' seen him clean that town. I took him t' the mine first 'cause I knew it 'ud be all off' if I let him in the city proper. "Pick looked down the shaft, and said he wouldn't go down fn the bucket. I told him there was a bucket shop at the other end, and that tempted him a little, so finally we got the cable tied under his arms, and down we went. I told him we'd be back in a minute, and when we finished, fin-ished, and came back he'd picked all the silver out of the rock on the sides of the shaft. Then I took him up town. He put a dollar on the seventeen, it came, and that settled it. lie spent the money like a pirate crew, and up went his credit. He could have anything he wanted. 'Loan me twenty,' he said to the bar boy. "All right. Will you O. K. it Dick?'" "Certainly," I sez, and put O. K. on the I. O. U. "Then he tackles another guy for twenty. "I'm going to the dance, kid, an' I only got sixty," sez the miner. "You can't use sixty at a dance," sez Pick. M Gimme twenty till morning," and he got it. Then I we went to the dance, and Pick gets in the mid- I die of the floor, and dances like the devil. I I thought I'd shame him, so I took up a collec- l tion, an' threw it at him. It never phased him; he picked up the money and went on dancing. Say, when he left Eureka today, all those boys were back to the mines trying to get it back, and Pick's got it inside his vest right now. |