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  • Even so, he was compelled to abandon a portion of his outfit — pick and shovel and gold-pan, extra food and cooking utensils, and divers odds and ends.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • Where the side-hill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • On the steep slope of the divide there was no ice, while snow, as fine and hard and crystalline as granulated sugar, was poured into the gold-pan by the bushel until enough water was melted for the coffee.

    THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

  • "Looks good to me," he concluded, picking up his pick and shovel and gold-pan.

    All Gold Cañon 2010

  • "Looks good to me," he concluded, picking up his pick and shovel and gold-pan.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • From out the screen of vines and creepers he flung ahead of him a miner's pick and shovel and gold-pan.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • Even so, he was compelled to abandon a portion of his outfit -- pick and shovel and gold-pan, extra food and cooking utensils, and divers odds and ends.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • Where the sidehill touched the water he dug up a shovelful of dirt and put it into the gold-pan.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • He rubbed the dirt away from fragment after fragment, tossing them into the gold-pan.

    All Gold Canon 2010

  • Into this he thrust the gold-pan and burned it till it was blue-black.

    All Gold Canon 2010

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