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"Cap'n Kidd, they said. They lay everything on him. Why, folks has come from all round. One crowd formed a jint-stock company, an' sold shares, an' skun a whole pile of money outer people. Another man come in his yacht, an' he fetched a feller with him who could find treasure with his eyes shut, so he said. He was one of these wizards, an' he had a divinin' rod.
He continued: "With my divinin' rod I have flew in the faces of the biggest geologists in the country and found water where they said there wasn't any." "Will the divining rod tell you how far you must dig for it?" "Pretty close to it. I count a foot to every bob of the willer."
"It's the figger of a mighty pretty girl, in them spirit clothes they allus wear, holding a divinin' rod for findin' gold afore her in one hand; all the while she's hidin' behind her, in the other hand, a branch o' thorns out of sight.
The modern kind, you find by employin' the Divinin' Rod" the large narrator bestowed a wink on Saxham and added "on the backs of the fellows who buried the guns. Never fails used in that way. And as it chances I have a communication to make to you." "A communication a message from the Chief to me?" Saxham's face changed, and softened, and brightened curiously and pleasantly.
His divinin' rod led him right up to a hummock in the middle of the island, an' they dug there, an' fetched up against the skeleton of an old dead hoss. That got 'em all excited, an' they pitched in an' dug like Sancho. But they never found nothin' 'cept the old hoss, an' so the wizard went back to town, an' took his divinin' rod with him.
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