DRILLING FOR TREASURE
We had a Momentum watch, our Bugeye mini compass, and a map.
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I think that I am being tricked into doing geometry when I am using my compass.
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That doesn’t matter now.
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We found what we were looking for.
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We had been on the trail for some time.
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There are several stories about the missing gold,
but they all have one thing in common.
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There is missing gold.
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And a lot of it.
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It was 1870.
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Maybe Mr. Lawson stole it in England and brought it to Manitoba.
It is said that he buried a barrel of gold every night along the Dawson Trail so that no one would find it if he was caught.
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And he was caught.
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Or.
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Soldiers threw the bags of gold off their horses while being chased, so that the horses could run faster and out run the pursuers.
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It doesn’t matter which story you want to believe.
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It was $10,000. worth of gold.
Now that gold is worth 1 million dollars.
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And we have found it!
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We took our post hole auger and started to dig.
And dig.
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And dig.
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Then we stopped.
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It turned out I was tricked, into working, thinking there was buried treasure.
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There was no buried treasure.
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We were just putting in a post for an electrical plug so that the cord for plugging in the car doesn’t have to go across the front sidewalk.
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Now nobody will trip on the cord, on the cold winter nights that dad’s car needs to be plugged in.
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That seems almost as good as finding the treasure.
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Almost.
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It doesn’t matter if you are looking for gold or putting in a post.
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Things have to be on the level.
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That was my job.
To keep things on the level.
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Every job needs supervisors.
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That is what the supervisors will tell you.
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It was up to Grandma and Joseph to supervise this job.
One day I might be a supervisor.
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Just not today.
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Have you ever had to keep things on the level?
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Let me know in the comments.
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