It was now a booming river as large as the Tuolumne at ordinary stages, its current brown with mining-mud washed down from many a "claim," and mottled with sluice-boxes, fence-rails, and logs that had long lain above its reach.

The ground about them is strewn with battered prospecting-pans, picks, sluice-boxes, and quartz specimens from many a ledge, indicating the trend of their owners' hard lives.

This business of turning a tree into boards without the aid of a saw-mill is a thing many placer-miners have to learn; for, even if they are disposed to sleep on the floor, and to do without shelves, they can't do sluicing without sluice-boxes, and they can't make those long, narrow boxes without boards.

Built a cabin and put up a sluice.

Then she ducked her head, crooked her arms at the elbow, and, with fists uplifted, she broke into a run, jumping from pile to pile of frozen pay, gliding under sluice-boxes, scrambling up the bank, slipping on the rotting ice, recovering, dashing on over fallen timber and through waist-deep drifts, on beyond No. 10 up to the bench above.

Well too if he like Love would filch our hoard With pleasure to ourselves, sluicing our vein And vigour to perpetuate the strain Of life by spilth of life within us stored!

It would require the most dismal of dismal days, with sluicing rain and clouds low down on every beautiful crag and snow-tipped summit, to make anybody born with a soul above his dinner, complain of the grandeur of the gorge, or impugn the unceasing variety of dashing waterfalls, foaming river, freshly-opened leaves, white heather, and bright, flower-decked fields.

Ten minutes later the water of the Lazy River was sluicing the dust from the legs and belly of Racey Dawson's horse.

But presently his efforts grew feeble, then he, too, lay stirless, prone in the sluicing rain.

No easy one, I can assure you, for the browsing and sluicing had been of the highest quality, and there had been one dish in particularI allude to the nonnettes de poulet Agnès Sorelwhich might well have broken down the most iron resolution.

One of the chuprassis, his gaudy uniform laid aside, and clad in a fragment of cotton, is sluicing himself with water and praying audibly.

Walking moodily down-stairs he was waylaid by Dorothea, who, sluicing the steps with dirty water under pretence of cleaning them, thus held, as it were, the key of the position, and so had him at command.

The Germans were fairly sluicing that trench by now.

It was the Forty-third lying east of the Grand Central sluice gates; east of fashion; east, in a word, of Fifth Avenuea great square brick building smoke-grimed, cobwebbed, and having the look of a cold-storage plant or a car barn fallen into disuse; dusty, neglected, almost eerie.

Entering the toilet-room at the rear of the car, he said, he had begun his ablutions by the side of another man, and it was as they were sluicing their faces with water that he heard the cry: "Why, Major, is that you?

When the outer door was raised above the mouth of the trunk and the inner door was lowered, the water in the stream at high tide would sluice through and flood the field, whereas at low tide the water pressure from the land side would shut the door and keep the flood in.

It soon became evident that Black Jack was a hard driver, for sluicing began with the first trickle of snow watereven while the ditches were still ice-boundand it continued with double shifts thereafter.

When the second season's sluicing was over and the ground had frozen he went outside.

The sluice-gates were opened and flooded the surrounding fields, so that the enemy's artillery was bogged and could not move.

When a company of infantrymen arrived in Sterling they found several cowboys sluicing down the court-house steps with water hauled laboriously from the river.

Then he imparted to the pan a deft circular motion that sent the water sluicing in and out through the dirt and gravel.

With a quick flirt he sent the water sluicing across the bottom, turning the grains of black sand over and over.

Even the alluvial fields are now systematically worked by hydraulic sluicing companies.

" "It was quite enough for me," broke in the Left Bower, "when the other day, you remember when, he proposed to us white men to settle down to plain ground sluicing, making 'grub' wages just like any Chinaman.

The trail was rutted in places where the sluicing rains had driven hard across the hills; soft with sand in places where the fierce winds had swept the open.