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Title: The American Legion Weekly (Volume 1, No. 13 (September 26, 1919))
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: American Legion. National Headquarters
Subjects: American Legion periodicals
Publisher: American Legion
Contributing Library: The American Legion National Headquarters Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ainin or practice, September 26, 1919 I goes to work. I carves a good one, too.As soon as its done, the chief gets bywith stealin a new flock o ponies ancows, an trades some o the poor ones forsome new wives. He makes quite a bito clear profit on the deal. The charm works so well for him thatI takes a try at it myself. I carves a newone. . . . An would yah believeme—that same day I stumbles down a drywash into a placer that looks like themint. Theres forty-seven nuggets in thepocket. HE paused again, this time impres-sively. But no one interrupted himwith words of doubt or commendation.The wise men of Deadwood rightly sus-pected that all this conversation event-ually would lead to something.And it did.Jeffers resumed. Thats why Im here. he announceddramatically. Ive brought along mycharm an Im goin lookin for locations—but if any o you boys want me to makeyou heathen idols like this here, bring meyour nuggets an Ill cut em. I aint sokeen on prospectin until the weather getsbetter.
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The guests, whatever might have beentheir opinion of Mr. Jefferss veracity,were visibly impressed. Deadwood was avery young community and therefore an ardent worshipper at the shrine of thegod Luck. Any talisman, however un-worthy its origin, was not to be scoffedat Jeffers stared wild-eyed. Everynuyget was a carving in the like-ness of the talisman, every nuggeta pellet of lead. His sins hadfound him out. And Mr. Jeffers, carver • of goldencharms and artistic headstones, did a rush-ing business—in charms. All of this is herein set forth because,as an immediate result, Mr. Jeffers wasgiven the title Lucky—an appellationwhich afterwards proved of doubtful value—and because, as a more remote result—(when the gilt came off the little leadstatues for which the citizenry found ithad traded good gold nuggets), Mr. Jeffersfound himself the object of the entirecamps tender solicitude. News travels quickly in a mining town—but before any of the oth?r votaries ofthe golden idol beca

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