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Vancouver Island and British Columbia 415: The slang in vogue in the mining regions is imported mainly from California, and is often as expressive as it is original. ‘Guessing’ and ‘calculating’ are exercises of perpetual occurrence. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 415: If one have the best of a bargain, he is said to have got ‘the dead wood’ on the other party in the transaction. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 416: The slang in vogue in the mining regions is imported mainly from California, and is often as expressive as it is original. [...] A good road, [...] boat, plough, dinner, or anything else you please, is ‘elegant.’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 416: The slang in vogue in the mining regions is imported mainly from California, and is often as expressive as it is original. [...] When a claim disappoints the hopes of those interested in it, it has ‘fizzled out.’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 420: Neither shalt thou destroy thyself by getting [...] ‘high,’ nor ‘corned,’ nor ‘half-seas over,’ nor ‘three sheets in the wind’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 420: Neither shalt thou destroy thyself by getting [...] ‘high,’ nor ‘corned,’ nor ‘half-seas over,’ nor ‘three sheets in the wind.’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 416: Credit is ‘jaw-bone,’ and in one store on the road to Cariboo, the fullsize jaw-bone of a horse is polished, and suspended on the wall, with the words written under: ‘None of that allowed here.’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 416: The slang in vogue in the mining regions is imported mainly from California, and is often as expressive as it is original. [...] A mean and greedy man is ‘on the make’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 416: The slang in vogue in the mining regions is imported mainly from California, and is often as expressive as it is original. [...] Another expression for wanting credit is ‘shooting off the fat.’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 416: The slang in vogue in the mining regions is imported mainly from California, and is often as expressive as it is original. [...] When one has run off to avoid paying his debts, he has ‘skedaddled,’ [...] if hard-up, he wants to ‘make a raise.’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 416: The slang in vogue in the mining regions is imported mainly from California, and is often as expressive as it is original. [...] Deceit in business is ‘shananigan.’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 420: Neither shalt thou destroy thyself by getting ‘tight,’ nor ‘slewed,’ nor ‘high,’ nor ‘corned,’ nor ‘half-seas over,’ nor ‘three sheets in the wind’. Vancouver Island and British Columbia 416: The slang in vogue in the mining regions is imported mainly from California, and is often as expressive as it is original. [...] When the conduct of any one renders him likely to a whipping or something worse, he is ‘spotted.’.