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Updated: May 13, 2025
I was let down into a big hole, the early parent of shaft-sinking, given a spade, and directed to apply it to a place where a digger's quick eye had detected one speck of gold. There was probably, he said, a string of gold behind it. And so it proved, for out of about a pound weight of matrix which I removed on the corner of the spade, I picked out 7 shillings and 6 pence worth of gold.
Let those who have lances and lassoes get them in readiness." "When would you have us make the dash, captain?" "Leave that to me. Perhaps he may dismount for the bow; or, if not, he may ride into the spring to water his horse, then we can surround him. If he see the Digger's body, he may pass up to examine it more closely. In that case we can intercept him without difficulty. Be patient!
On the diggings near the Avoca River the lizard's future master had, as was the digger's custom, come out of his hole, or shaft, at eleven o'clock for a short half-hour's rest between breakfast and the midday meal.
In all these cases the excavation is by no means a grave destined to receive the Mouse, but a mere trial boring, of inconsiderable depth and of the diameter of the digger's body. Back again to the Mouse, who suddenly shakes, swings, advances, recoils, first in one direction, then in another, until in the end the hillock of sand is crossed. Now we are free of the brick and on excellent soil.
Here and there a flag fluttered in the breeze, and men were everywhere men remarkably alike in type, strong, bearded, sun burnt, their digger's garb as monotonous as a uniform, but picturesque and easy. Evidently little work was going forward.
I told him 'Yes, climb up; it's a little extra work for the horses, but I suppose as long as I don't mind it you'll not object." "Ha! Satan always helps his own out of difficulties," whispered Halloran to his companion; and, without waiting for a reply, he was out of the coach like a flash, and his hand was on the old grave digger's arm ere he could make the ascent to the box beside the driver.
The cold winds and the drifting snow blew into the old grave digger's face, but he worked on with desperate zeal, realizing that another life might depend upon the swiftness of his rescue. At last, after what seemed to him an eternity of time, he reached the body, and quickly lifted it from its resting place.
Here the two beavers toiled side by side, working independently. With their teeth they cut the tough sod as cleanly as a digger's spade could do it. With their fore paws they scraped up the soil which was soft and easily worked into sticky lumps, which they could hug under their chins and carry up the slope to be dumped upon the grass at the side.
It was half-buried in the leaf-mold and moss, though the rain of the previous night had washed it free in one corner. That corner glistened so that it dazzled the digger's eyes, and she exclaimed aloud: "Oh, I've found a gold mine! Right here in Aunt Eunice's woods. I must get this great piece of gold out and take it to her.
The only fact with which we need concern ourselves is that the fraud went on without exposure for many years, and that James and John alike grew fat on it. A certain hulking ruffian, with an Australian digger's beard, had turned up of late to disturb the tranquillity of the partners.
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