An Adjustment of Nature

0:00 rest of her life. Why, I never see such a fine girl. I'm going back there and ask her to marry

0:05 me. I guess she won't want to sling hash any more when she sees the pile of dust I've got.

0:11 You'll take another whiskey and milk now, Kraft persuaded with Satan's smile.

0:15 I thought you upcountry fellows were better sports. Kraft spent his puny store of coin at

0:21 the bar, then gave Judkins and me an appealing look that we went down to the last dime we had

0:27 and toasting our guest. Then, when our ammunition was gone and the Klondiker, still somewhat sober,

0:33 began to babble again of Millie, Kraft whispered into his ear such a polite barbed insult relating

0:39 to people who were miserly with their funds that the miner crashed down handful after handful of

0:44 silver notes, calling for all the fluids in the world to drown the imputation. Thus the work was

0:50 accomplished. With his own guns we drove him from the field, and then we had him carted to a distant

0:56 small hotel, and put to bed with his nuggets and baby seal skins stuffed around him. He will never

1:03 find ciphers again, said Kraft. He will propose to the first white apron he sees in a dairy restaurant

1:08 tomorrow, and Millie, I mean the natural adjustment, is saved. And back to ciphers went we three, and

1:16 finding customers scarce, we joined hands and did an Indian dance with Millie in the centre. This I say

1:24 happened three years ago, and about that time a little luck descended upon us three, and we were

1:29 enabled to buy costlier and less wholesome food than ciphers. Our paths separated, and I saw Kraft no

1:36 more, and Judkin seldom. But as I said, I saw a painting the other day that was sold for five thousand

1:43 dollars. The title was Bodicea, and the figure seemed to fill all out of door.