human
Wait, and I'll get you a cup of hot coffee,
gpt
Say, dew you know who that feller is who has j'ined grub with you?
human
Oh, just a miner out prospecting, I reckon, answered Bud, as he took the coffee.
gpt
We thought we would be social and asked him to share our meal,
human
Wal, and the grin on Ham's face broadened,
gpt
What! and Bud stopped so suddenly that he almost spilt the coffee.
human
Not the James W. Marshall who discovered the first gold in California!
gpt
Th' identicle cuss, laughed Ham.
human
But 'tain't done him much good so far.
gpt
Glory be, we just thought he was an ordinary prospector, when we asked him to share our lunch! And so he is the man that started all this mad rush for California gold, and Bud's eyes turned curiously in the direction of the stranger.
human
Well, he sure don't look as if the gold had done him much good.
gpt
That's usually th' way on it, replied Ham.
human
Th' feller what finds it only gits th' first smell, then 'long comes some other feller an' gobbles it all up, leavin' th' finder nuthin' but th' glory.
gpt
Maybe we can get him to tell us the story of how he found the gold, and Bud's face lighted up.
human
I'd like to hear it from his own lips.
gpt
Wal, grinned Ham,
human
Maybe the hot coffee will do as well,