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‘The Prospector’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 82: Poor boys, they’re down-and-outers.at down-and-outer, n.
‘The Prospector’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 82: Poor boys, they’re down-and-outers. ‘The Black Sheep’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 101: But the one that cooked my bacon was Grubbe, of the City Patrol.at cook someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
‘The Ballad of the Northern Lights’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 27: A craven, cowering bag of bones that once had been a man.at bag of bones, n.1
‘The Man from Eldorado’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 72: They signified their sympathy by crowding to the bar; / They bellied up three deep and drank his health.at belly up (to), v.
‘The Telegraph Operator’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 93: This awful hush that hugs / And chokes one is enough / To make a man go ‘bugs’.at go bugs (v.) under bugs, adj.
‘The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 67: The supercilious cheechako might designate them high, / But one acquires a taste for them and likes them by-and-by.at cheechako, n.
‘The Man from Eldorado’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 44: I am humbled indeed, for I’m ‘cuffed’ to a Swede that thinks he’s a millionaire.at cuff, v.2
‘My Friends’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 78: Often I wondered why / They did not [...] finish me off with a dose of dope—so utterly lost was I.at dope, n.1
‘The Wood-Cutter’ Ballads of a Cheechako 97: I’m holding it down on God’s scrap-pile, up on the fag-end of earth.at fag end, n.
‘Lost’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 131: A pie-faced corpse in a snowbank – curse you, don’t be a fool!at pie-faced, adj.
‘The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 51: And here I swear by this Cross I wear, I heard that ‘floater’ say: [...] ‘In the grit and grime of the river’s slime I am rotting at your feet.’.at floater, n.1
‘Lost’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 130: Snow that comes down like feathers, thick and gobby and gray.at gob, n.2
‘The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 54: And at last I spoke: ‘Bill liked his joke; but still, goldarn his eyes’.at goldarn, v.
‘The Black Sheep’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 86: The man who potlatched the whiskey and landed me into the hole / Was Grubbe, that unmerciful bounder, Grubbe, of the City Patrol.at in the hole (adj.) under hole, n.1
‘The Man from Eldorado’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 70: ‘Who’s for a juicy two-step?’ cries the master of the floor.at juicy, adj.
‘The Ballad of the Northern Lights’ Ballads of a Cheechako 15: A knight of the hollowed needle, pard, spewed from the sodden slum.at ...the needle under knight of the..., n.
‘Lost’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 133: And there is the blizzard waiting to give me a knockout blow.at knockout, adj.
‘Lost’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 131: I’m going to lick this blizzard; I’m going to live the night.at lick, v.1
‘Telegraph Operator’ Ballads of a Cheechako 93: I ‘pig’ around the place – / There’s nobody to care.at pig, v.1
‘Clancy of the Mounted Police’ Ballads of Cheechako 122: I panned and I panned in the shiny sand, and I sniped on the river bar; But I know, I know, that it’s down below that the golden treasures are.at snipe, v.1
‘The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill’ in Ballads of a Cheechako 45: As I sat there gazing at that stiff and studying what to do.at stiff, n.1
‘The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry’ Ballads of a Cheechako 75: The smooth Beau Brummels of the bar, the faro men, are there; / The tinhorns and purveyors of red paint.at tinhorn, n.
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