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  • In accordance with the custom of the country, our door had always stood open and our board welcome to tramping miners -- they drifted along nearly every day, dumped their paust shovels by the threshold and took "pot luck" with us -- and now on our own tramp we never found cold hospitality.

    Roughing It, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872

  • In accordance with the custom of the country, our door had always stood open and our board welcome to tramping miners -- they drifted along nearly every day, dumped their paust shovels by the threshold and took "pot luck" with us -- and now on our own tramp we never found cold hospitality.

    Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

  • In accordance with the custom of the country, our door had always stood open and our board welcome to tramping miners -- they drifted along nearly every day, dumped their paust shovels by the threshold and took "pot luck" with us -- and now on our own tramp we never found cold hospitality.

    Roughing It 1871

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