”'He wants no further interference. Rarely had so many men lived in such misery, and he could find no oneto take him in, even though he had saved lives by bringing in the cargo of food. Gray, exultedby the fact that he had done well, turned to ask his adviser: 'What do we do now,Ben?' only to see that the fox farmer ' Almost hesitantly he added: 'I couldn'tlet him go.
But what could he do other than sulk? And thishe did, with every sign of becoming increasingly difficult as the season progressed. He worked like the strongest man present, andon Sundays he preached inspired sermons that ran for more than an hour, even thoughhis entire congregation consisted of only three families. rom the shore, storing them in piles, and slogging back knee-deepin icy water to break loose more cargo. 'Again, the excitement of the gold rush was so pervasive that the managers of thepaper listened to a proposal that would have been dismissed as outrageous a yearbefore.
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