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"It's panning out mighty low-grade stuff! -- Dog-gone it!"
The young man who made this ejaculation, and in a most discouraged tone, too, was slender and wiry, with sandy reddish hair surmounting a Scotch cast of features. His face was freckled and sunburned. The inextinguishable hope of youth still flickered in his blue eyes, but there was worry, anxiety, there, too -- the sign of that nagging, cankering care that keeps a fellow thin.