to lead the most adventurous life and to
achieve the most solid worldly success.

This is what actually happened to Tiny:
While she was running her lodging-house in
Seattle, gold was discovered in Alaska. Miners
and sailors came back from the North with
wonderful stories and pouches of gold. Tiny
saw it and weighed it in her hands. That
daring which nobody had ever suspected in
her, awoke. She sold her business and set
out for Circle City, in company with a car-
penter and his wife whom she had persuaded
to go along with her. They reached Skaguay
in a snowstorm, went in dog sledges over the
Chilkoot Pass, and shot the Yukon in flat-
boats. They reached Circle City on the very
day when some Siwash Indians came into the
settlement with the report that there had
been a rich gold strike farther up the river,
on a certain Klondike Creek. Two days later
Tiny and her friends, and nearly every one
else in Circle City, started for the Klondike
fields on the last steamer that went up the
Yukon before it froze for the winter. That
boatload of people founded Dawson City.
Within a few weeks there were fifteen hun-
dred homeless men in camp. Tiny and the

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