AllardChardon
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Very nice, Edward.
Og, there is a story in Mark Twain's Roughing It, where he stumbles upon a stream glittering with gold while alone and can hardly keep from telling his fellow miners how rich they're all gonna be, when the truth of fool's gold sets in. In another chapter, he has the job of sifting the tailings for gold dust. We have fool's gold here and Lake Tahoe area is so full of it, the streets glitter with gold. It has a very nice effect on a sunny summer day.
Just north of here is a town named Dunsmuir. Back in the prospecting days of California, every inch of the Sacramento River was gone over. One of the earliest prospectors (I can't remember his name) did this in Dunsmuir and found no gold, but did not let that stop him. He loaded some gold dust into his shotgun and blasted the steep sides of the river north of Dunsmuir and then went down to the City of Sacramento to sell stakes in this bonanza of gold. Many miners trekked all the way up here and staked out their claims. Well, they dug and panned and dug and panned ... for over a month, and nobody got any more gold than the dust on the surface from the shotgun. The shyster managed to get out of town on the train going south, just before the miners caught him, and escaped into the Whiskeytown area, east of Redding.
I knew the second definition of this next word, but not the first;
placebo - noun 1. the vespers for the dead in the Roman Catholic Church 2.a. an inert or innocuuous medication given especially to satisfy the patient b. something tending to soothe or gratify
Og, there is a story in Mark Twain's Roughing It, where he stumbles upon a stream glittering with gold while alone and can hardly keep from telling his fellow miners how rich they're all gonna be, when the truth of fool's gold sets in. In another chapter, he has the job of sifting the tailings for gold dust. We have fool's gold here and Lake Tahoe area is so full of it, the streets glitter with gold. It has a very nice effect on a sunny summer day.
Just north of here is a town named Dunsmuir. Back in the prospecting days of California, every inch of the Sacramento River was gone over. One of the earliest prospectors (I can't remember his name) did this in Dunsmuir and found no gold, but did not let that stop him. He loaded some gold dust into his shotgun and blasted the steep sides of the river north of Dunsmuir and then went down to the City of Sacramento to sell stakes in this bonanza of gold. Many miners trekked all the way up here and staked out their claims. Well, they dug and panned and dug and panned ... for over a month, and nobody got any more gold than the dust on the surface from the shotgun. The shyster managed to get out of town on the train going south, just before the miners caught him, and escaped into the Whiskeytown area, east of Redding.
I knew the second definition of this next word, but not the first;
placebo - noun 1. the vespers for the dead in the Roman Catholic Church 2.a. an inert or innocuuous medication given especially to satisfy the patient b. something tending to soothe or gratify