Site Went to Klondyke.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 60

Site Went to Klondyke.

There was a young woman who went to Klondyke to see wbat the country and the clim&te were like. For she said: " Though the weather they tell me is cold, I can bring back, I reckon, a sackful of gold. I can bring back a sackful, an 3 probably two; and what bet'er, alas ! can a young woman do ? '"' So sbe went, with her trunks and her satchels and all, where there's nine moatfas of winter and three months of fall.

Now, when she arrived in the country of wealth, she remarked : " I am really not here for my health." And she stuck out a signboard which read like this one* "Miss Jessica Simpson. Gents' Laundrying Done." And the miners all brought her their garments andhose, and she saved all the gold-du*b she washed from their clothes. And her charges for washing — great Cioesus ! I vow But that is the story I'm telling you now.

A miner thera was with a mine of pure gold, and he ran up a bill for three mouths, I am told. : Then he asked for that bill ; and the things, that he said.^if I should repeat them, they cbnld not be read. Bub they compromised soon, I am Tiappv to say, when jbe lowly suggested: "Your bill I can't pay; but" — , she fell on his breast like a. creature divine — " but let* compromise it — take .me and mine."

Oh, charming j r oung woman, the moral's for you : If you c*n'e get a mine, why, a miner will do ; for the mine and tbe miner are nearly as one — though the latter's a drawback, the former is none. You may live as a princess and be as a queen, as my heroiue's-liviug at present, I ween ; for there's more than ono method of making » strike, as the lady can tell you who went to Kloudyke.