Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-10-27

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JACKS STORY OF THE OWNING ROD OR
THE BOBBING STICK.
I will commence my yarn, gentle
men, by remarking that I consider
Mac to be the most superfine liar on
the Sound, a regular Munchauscn.
But I wish to tell you some facts.
You have all probably seen in the
late California papers, that some of
the richest quartz diggings yet dis
covered have recently been opened
at place in Calavcras county, which
you who mined there in '52 may re-
member l named the sheep pasture.
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quartz gold, and if 1 had only stuck
there, 1 should to-day be a richer
man than John G. Fremont, with his
Mariposa mine. "Dang John G.
Fremont" says by-stander, "he's
the biggest liar and humbug on the
contincnt-can out-lie Mac, and out
humbug Barnum. Why, Jack, il
Fremont's honest debts were paid,
wouldn't have enough money to pur.
chase a picture of the celebrated
woody horse he once sold to Bar
num-" That's so, says Jack; you're
right. Fremont, and his mule meat,
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from "Down East" who had what
call a bobbing-machine to tell where
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until shaken up-red, blue, green
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through the cork run horse hair
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