Burning Daylight
Publisher: eBooksLib
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Format: eBook
ISBN-13: 9781412181266
Description: It was a quiet night in the Shovel. At the bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juice as remedies for scurvy. They argued with an air of depression and with intervals of morose silence. The other men scarcely heeded them. In a row, against the opposite wall, were the gambling games.