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And you, Brighten, take some of that wood off the fire, and stuff something in that hole there to stop the draught. Brighten he was a nuggety little hairy man with no expression to be seen for whiskers had been running in with sticks and back logs from the wood-heap.
The Telegraph came with the offer of their buggy, and then the Police offered theirs; but Mine Host, harnessing two nuggety little horses into his buck-board, drove round to the store, declaring a buck-board was the "only thing for the road." "You won't feel the journey at all in it," he said, and drove us round the Settlement to prove how pleasant and easy travelling could be in the Wet.
But when we find large nuggety masses of high carat gold in the beds of dead rivers, another origin has to be sought. As previously stated, there is fair reason to assume that at least three salts of gold have existed, and, possibly, may still be found in Nature silicate, sulphide, and chloride.
Thin slats were fixed across the bottom of the box, with mercury behind them, to catch such particles of gold as escaped the blanket. The stuff dug up by our friends was so nuggety that many lumps remained in the upper box, where they were detained by their weight, while the lighter stuff passed through, and the smaller lumps were held by a deeper slat at the further end of the bottom of the box.
Napoleon was one of our native crew a short, nuggety little Tongan, who, in an attack made on our boats nearly a year before, had received a bullet in the calf of the leg.
'He was a short nuggety man, and could use his hands, they said; he looked as if he'd be a nasty, vicious, cool customer in a fight he wasn't the sort of man you'd care to try and swindle a second time. He had a monkey shave when he shaved, but now it was all frill and stubble like a bush fence round a stubble-field.
Thus the aggregation of the nuggety forms of gold from solution becomes a still more simple matter, only one reagent being necessary, so that there is a greater probability of such depositions obtaining than were a double process necessary. Knowing the action of sulphides, the manner or the mode of formation of a portion at least of these nuggets seems apparent.
He didn't say grace at meals, he smoked a pipe, drank whisky and brandy with Otway and Robertson, told rattling good stories, and displayed an immediate interest when the skipper mentioned that the second mate was a "bit of a bruiser," and that there were gloves on board; and the second mate, a nuggety little Tynesider, at once consented to a friendly mill as soon as he was off duty.
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