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`` You carry your mine right around with you , do n't you ? '' `` Huh , I guess so , '' muttered the dentist . `` I -- I just sold a claim I had up in El Dorado County , '' he added . At five o'clock on a magnificent May morning the `` pardners '' jogged out of Keeler , driving the burro before them . Cribbens rode his cayuse , McTeague following in his rear on the mule . `` Say , '' remarked Cribbens , `` why in thunder do n't you leave that fool canary behind at the hotel ? It 's going to be in your way all the time , an ' it will sure die .