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Sport and Life. 



<( No jawbone here," which translated means, " No tick." Ready 

 money or gold dust, which latter, until the advent of the police, 

 was the usual currency, had to be in sight ere " poison " could 

 be tasted. The authors of "British Columbia in 1887" noticed 

 this adornment also, but they misunderstood its meaning, for they 

 say of it : "A quaint conceit, which, in the interest of truth, might 



WEEK-DAY WORK, 

 The Sawmill at Grohman, B.C. (the first Steam Mill in the Kootenay Valleys). 



be adopted in most of our .English gun-rooms and smoking-rooms." 

 I much fear that truth is an article considered much too priceless 

 out yonder to deserve such marked attention. 



I had a busy time of it that autumn, for as soon as I could 

 sit a horse again, I had to start out to organise and superintend 

 two outfits of surveyors, and to select in a valley 90 miles long 

 the 30,000 acres comprised by the concessions. This was not 



