Show I 1 6 QUEENS his hi mind be olaff olien olson m gag up yotis to go to the klondike it took him a long tine time to make ui up his mind it took 0 k t a 1 longer on s e r t time ioto tac to let get to the X tol klondike 0 ad 1 akil ikil 1 in n t the h e A r 1 pi place a be mad a mistake lid relec reelected ted the trill trail from over the al bp plus to lak lake uennett now bat that was w bad but not a bad a a his hi nit next error it would not giro give it up and so by the though be he beard wa was much easier but bist that dote cot not aay SAY much for or the th PAAL 1 no laid said olaff 1 I started to go over the me white par pass and I 1 is I 1 coln to make it over the whit white pass olaff bad a hard time on the trail though he didn dian t know it IL that is I 1 to would hare have thought say ay any other man it a hard time but olaff expect ing bad thine things had bad no kick As a be expressed it against adversity olaff 01 was w an exceptional man on the trall trail phenomenally exceptional for on a trail when where each man had one on partner at least and moet most many olaff 01 preferred baring having no partner anhder man in to the party besides me won wont t du be he ald said 1 I might want to do one thing and him noler besides I 1 don t want no PArd partner hr partners Pard nera ners alway always means trouble the experience of many men on the trail confirmed the wisdom of 0 staffs 01 nothing discouraged blab when misfortune overtook oTer took him he eel set to work to do what he could for tho h best up before ware daybreak he be cooked a substantial breakfast for he be bleed in feeding himself well welland and with fifty pound pounds more oa on his hi back than any other man could carry started off on the trail climbing over rock rocks and wading through mid mad keeping at it all day with a abort short interval for lunch I 1 it took him ten daya days to tame mule hit his outfit from station to station diali cultree too great tor for other men never prevented olaff 01 from moving forward it he could not make ten miles he made fire give it not five he be made two out but be he always kept moving forward when some of his hi provisions were ato to len ion be rustled aa as be called it and worked tor for other others until be he bad earned enough to replace what hid bad been stolen then he be moved oh his hi own out fit when at last he reached lake bennett he built a boat and calmly let met aall soil without any of the excitement which others exhibited men lien wanted to bu r a lahage in his hi boat and assist him to manage it but olaff told no I 1 don t want to passengers and I 1 guess I 1 can handle lue we boat myself at the tallah lake custom house ouse olaff worked four daya days to pay for the duty on an bli big good goods and went on bi bit way without the delay ruffling bit hi tern tem per lie its ailed sailed bla boat around the point at windy arm when thirty other boata boats hauled up on the beach k w A f A 4 V 1 I i 1 L it 1 k A t 11 1 t ak I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 V 1 I 1 UIL 1 I 1 r i I 1 I 1 0 04 00 60 KEEPING AT IT approaching lilies miles canon men choute 3 to warn olaff to land and lighten bis big boat and wait for or the pilot that the canoll canon 1 they shouted ah mile canon 1 Is I itt said olaff olaf 1 I ve been watch ing for or it all day and he took big hi boat through add on through the white hone horse rapids without moving an eyelid but now floating ice began to impede progress ill III keep going till abe she freeze up be eald said and be he did she froze up wit when olaff had got to five finger fingers and olaff went into camp lie ile built a abed shed and ate up bis his grub until be he had left what hat be could pull about christmas olaff started for dawon dawson on the ice with more on his big led than any two men could pull he made alow slow progress but be said 1 I shall come fuere ome some time it 1 I 1 keep moring moving four ailed a day doe does t seem much but it persisted in it count counts up and at last olaff arrived in dawson he ile immediately moved up the creek and went to work prospecting I 1 0 toll his surprise it lead pencil prospector lumped jumped hia his claim olafa moved to another location found good prospect prospects and recorded then he built a cabin and settled down to work lie ile put in eleven solid hours a cay eay ills III claim wa wait BOO feet and ax as he looked round around US felt pheasee plea eee lie ile had bad all the gold he wanted be thought and it wag wa all his hi own he ile congratulated himself dally daily on having baving no partner some camped one night at olaff a cabin and discussed the mining regulations I 1 ukon tam stam peders are strange yukon mining regulation regula tlona are still atranter atran xer olaff learned to his din lay that half bals of hi his claim did not belo belong to him it belonged to the quest the atam stam peden peders wd alist waa was m troubled he ile topped stopped working and thought over the situation then lits h went dowa down to dawson took his paille in line behind some hundred hundreds others outside the commissi ot of nce ace nd waited patiently lor for admit tance the thermometer registered degree below but olaff wanted to 5 the gul sul I 1 and that waa was a detail he could not remedy ate waiting two hour hours and a halt half be got in 1 I want went to ste ee the tle guld suld old olaff to a worried looking man lic sated behind a roughly made desk and ome owe gold kales scales 1 I am the gold commissioner vac wait the reply what do you 1 I want to know the queens el ld drafts old said oleff always to know laC wd t the he co commie mm a loner what mat do yi u want with the owene adar lt 11 6 al inse well il aid said olaff the queen bad al me a Is I 1 1 4 oa ft 1 citie I up tir the creek ergell and I 1 don t want ant to be b pard nere sorg bo go I 1 want ant to write to the qun quests to know it U shell the 11 buy my 0 feet or of mil wl her bar 2 feet to ac me I 1 dont want no hardnen pard nen ald sid anyhow the queen queens work into the CI dun AIme no putting oy the commil nor advised olaff not no to w write t b but u to alt and ate what the th to tutor w r e atoo would u ld b brine tolar g hinting at pos sable 1 changes in the law olaff went back to his hi claim bu but t bad no heart tor for work it worried him to have a pardner more especially a lady jody and one of eo so exalted rank task dut but olaff found it hard work thinking and idling were strange to him so he h gradually drifted into working regularly on his hi claim aa as bard hard AS a ever ai As time went on olas sized up mat ten something ai as follow follows and trew contented 1 I don t want no pardner but ay my pard nera nets never here to bother me she doen t put any say work wark into the claim but then the she a a lady and I 1 wouldn t let her work noho eren even if it she be wanted to if it a man mut bare have a pardner he cant have no to better pardner than the queen she a all right aa as it pardner ie Is till still working on hi bi a claim and rd the only thing that trouble troubles him Is I 1 whether hit big partner will come came tor for her ibare of the dust after the wash up or wheler ber it will be his hi duty to take if tle duit dust to her hut but olafe is I 1 de ter mined the queen will gt got hr her beham rahe gag she a a tood good pardner ex |