french-chalk

Updated: May 19, 2025

"A French-chalk mine," said he, "would not be a bad thing, but I hoped that you had struck a bed of mineral gutta-percha. That would be a grand find." But the chalk-bed was at last passed, and we began again to bring up nothing but common earth. "I suppose," said my optimist to me, one morning, "that you must soon come to water, and if you do I hope it will be hot water." "Hot water!" I exclaimed.

Frank Richard Stockton - The Magic Egg and Other Stories