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Updated: June 6, 2025
Friday night passed and most of Saturday; and though diligent search was made, the watch was not found. "Poor papa!" said Kyzie. "He doesn't say much; but how sober he looks! Grandma Dunlee gave him that watch, Jimmy, when he was a young man; and he did love it so!" "I know it. Oh, dear, how can he stand it?" responded jimmy, who had been deeply touched from the first by his father's forbearance.
The pen and inkstand belong here. Ahem, I begin to tremble," said she, and looked at her mother's watch which she wore in her belt. "It's five minutes of nine." "Oh, you'll do famously," said Mr. Dunlee. "And now, daughter, I'll wish you good-by and the very best luck in the world." "Good-by, papa," said Kyzie, and locked the door after him.
"She can't go home," said her older sister Janey, "mamma's cookin' for company!" Kyzie patted the baby's tangled hair and sent Janey to get her some water. "I'll go," spoke up Jack Whiting, aged seven. "Janey isn't big enough. Besides the pail leaks." "I'm so glad Edith isn't here," thought Kyzie, "or we should both get to giggling. There, it's time now to call them out to read.
"First thing I want to see is that mine," said Lucy, as they all met outside the hotel. "The mine?" repeated Kyzie, and looked at Eddo. "I'm afraid it isn't quite safe to take little bits of people to such a place as that. Do you think it is, Nate?" "Rather risky," replied Nate. Eddo had caught the words, "little bits of people," and his eyes opened wide. "What does mine mean, Jimmum?"
Yes, there was a faint shine to it; it began to look precious. "Well, there's a heap of it anyway. It goes ever so far down," said he, thrusting in a stick. "It's from ten to twelve feet deep," replied Nate, proud of his knowledge; "and see how long and wide!" "I don't see how they ever ground up rocks so fine," said Kyzie. "Exactly like sand.
The desks and benches were rude ones of black oak, and had been hacked by jack-knives. Kyzie regretted this, but supposed the boys had not been taught any better. There was only one chair in the room, a large armed chair for the little teacher, and it stood solemnly on the platform before the desk. "You see, papa, I've brought a big blank-book to write the names in.
"Too bad the gold gave out," said Kyzie, gazing regretfully into the watery depths. "But it didn't give out! Why, there's gold enough left down there to buy up the whole United States! They lost the vein, that's all" "The vein? What's a vein?" asked Edith. "Well, you see," replied the guide, "gold goes along underground in streaks; they call it veins.
"It is this: mightn't we get up some entertainments, good ones that would be worth paying for?" "And sell the tickets? Oh, auntie, that's just the thing! That's capital!" cried Edith and Kyzie. "You'd do it beautifully." "I'm not so sure of that, girls. But we might join together and act a little play that I've been writing; that is, we might try. What have you to say, Jimmy? Could you help?"
Kyzie thought not; so Jimmy went on telling Lucy what he knew of Castle Cliff. "It's named for an air-castle there is up there; it's a thing they call an air-castle anyway. A man built it in the hollow of some trees, away up, up, up. I'm going to climb up there to see it." "So'm I," said Lucy. "Ho, you can't climb worth a cent; you're only a girl!"
The scholars all appeared pretty much as usual; raising their hands very often to ask, "May I speak?" or, "May I have a drink of water?" The little teacher had always wished they would not do so, but how could she help it? It was "an old-fashioned school," perhaps that was why it was so noisy. Whatever went wrong, Kyzie always said to herself, "Oh, it's just an old-fashioned school."
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