Page:Banking Under Difficulties- Or Life On The Goldfields Of Victoria, New South Wales And New Zealand (1888).pdf/16

Rh “It was a common occurrence for such persons to entertain every person they could prevail upon to enter hotels with the best these houses afforded; and hundreds—nay, thousands!—of pounds were spent by many foolish and improvident gold diggers in the course of a week’s saturnalia. It too often occurred that they had good cause to repent their thoughtless behaviour, as, generally speaking, they were not again fortunate on the goldfield. A rich claim was seldom met with, and it was a very fortunate individual who happened to fall upon rich spots twice in his digging experience.”