IN THE COLO CAMPS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3755, 2 March 1926, Page 78

IN THE COLO CAMPS.

“Slag and Gold.” A tale of the Porcupine trail. (Cloth, 7s 6d net.) London : Stanley Paul and Company. This is a story of popular quality having for a hero a young man who starts life under most unfavourable conditions, but who, through inherent fitness for better things and minliness of character, wins through and gains prosperity, and the greater prize of the love of the girl who had seemed hopelessly above him. “Kid” Winfield was a product of the underworld of Western mining towns. His father was a gambler and cardsharper, who taught his son all his own accomplishments. His mother, who was devoted to her hoy, craved better things for him, and the higher tendencies he inherited from her gradually asserted themselves. Losing both his parents early he worked for o time as dealer in a gambling house, and then as a bookmaker; then did odd clerical work, and speculated in mining shares. The Porcupine gold rush took him into northern Ontario. A main interest of the ensuing story is his fight to maintain his title to his claim, which turns out to bo extremely rich, against a fraudulent speculator whose son is his rival, and by mean practices tries to overreach him in love.

The narrative contain* many exciting incidents, notably a great bush fire in which the hero rescues the heroine. A feature in the story which will appeal to animal lovers is the prominent part played by Juno, the great Dane rescued by “Kid” \\ infield, after she had been wounded and abandoned by her former brutal master.