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Diary Of A Gold Digger

 * Name:**Marcus Pike
 * Age:** 13
 * Job:**Polishing rifles
 * Tools:** Pickaxe, hardhat, pistol and rifle
 * Origin:** America
 * Family:** Father and Mother

DIARY: At first I thought this was kind of outrageous but when I found out that there was **MORE** gold in Melbourne, all that changed. The only trouble was that my father keeps vommiting everytime we hit a wave.I just hope we can get to Melbourne in one piece or there is no point in coming. Before we got to Ballarat, Mother stopped at a drink tent. After two hours of sitting and looking left and right, Mother came out of the tent with a knife and started walking back to the dock. So Father and I tried to stop her by carrying her back but mother resisted and kicked Father in the groin. Father then started swaring unnecessarily. Out of sheer luck a carriage was rolling towards the mines so we quikly chucked mother on but by the time we did that we were left behind
 * 1853, January 9:**
 * 1853, January 16:**