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When Val had suggested their going to the diggings he had imagined they would tramp thither through the bush, with their blankets and swag on their shoulders, as he had often read of men doing; and that they would end by picking up a big nugget of gold that would make all their fortunes!
Require a change, or would not go. May hit upon a nugget, etc., etc." Mr. Goad's memoranda of his adventures, and signal defeat by Uncle Sam, have no claim to be copied here, though differing much from my account. With their terse unfeeling strain, they might make people laugh who had not sadder things to think of.
However, they were so ingenious and clever that they worked my pockets like the pump itself, only with this unhappy difference, that the former had no inexhaustible spring of silver, or even of copper. For Uncle Sam, generous and noble as he was, did not mean to let me melt all away at once my share of the great Blue River nugget, any more than to make ducks and drakes of his own.
In the meanwhile, Granger had been examining the thing which had been placed in his hands. It was wrapped up carefully in several rags, which were knotted and tedious to untie. When he had stript them off, he found that they contained a nugget, somewhat bigger than the one which Eyelids had shown him, but of the same rounded formation, as though it had been taken from a river-bed.
We did not give the clerk time to make the calculation, but offered Mike, on a venture, a sum equivalent to two thousand seven hundred dollars for his quarterings, while we concluded to run the risk of the interior of the nugget being filled with quartz.
My son Job and I were prospecting, and we discovered it the richest nugget ever found in Grizzly county. Of course we kept it a secret; didn't want a rush up here," replied Malden. "What a lie!" said Job to himself. "That's the very nugget Mike Hannerry found at the Yellow Jacket! Where on earth did uncle get it?" "Come, Devonshire, let's buy 'er h'up and get h'out of this bloomin' country.
The great nugget was carefully packed in a stout wooden box by Archie, and placed in the trap by him with such caution that Madame, who was already seated in it, asked him if he was afraid she would be robbed. 'It's always best to be on the richt side, mem, said Archie, handing her the reins; 'we dinna ken what may happen.
'I think I'll send it to Melbourne for exhibition, said Mrs Villiers, touching the nugget very lightly with her fingers. ''Deed, mum, and 'tis worth it, replied McIntosh, whose severe face was relaxed in a grimly pleasant manner; 'but losh! 'tis naething tae what 'ull come oot o' the Deil's Lead.
"You have promised me ever so long that I should be the first to show Firm the nugget." "And so you shall, my dear, and Firm shall see it before he is an hour older, and Jowler shall come down to show us where it is."
Of course we can't move very rapidly, but our getting out of the cavern is only a question of time." "I hope it won't take long," said Nugget. "A day or two of this would drive me mad." Just then the match he was holding burnt to the end and fell in the water. He restored the box to Ned, and taking hold of the canoes at the stern ends, they moved slowly through the darkness.
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