The attitude of all
parties was warlike in the extreme, and the speeches of those who, from
time to time, condescended to please themselves by haranguing their
neighbors, teemed with nothing but strife and wounds, fight and furious
performance.
The matter, as we have already remarked, was not made out by the youth
without considerable difficulty. He obtained, however, some particulars
from the various speakers, which, taken in connection with the broken
and incoherent sentences of Forrester, who dashed into speech at
intervals with something of the fury of a wounded panther in a
cane-brake, contributed at length to his full enlightenment.
"Matter enough--matter enough! and you will think so too--to he robbed
of our findings by a parcel of blasted 'coons, that haven't soul enough
to keep them freezing. Why, this is the matter, you must know: only last
week, we miners of Tracy's diggings struck upon a fine heap of the good
stuff, and have been gathering gold pretty freely ever since.
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