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Updated: May 19, 2025
One day while his burro was eating quartz and pine burrs Cherokee turned up with his pick a nugget weighing thirty ounces. He staked his claim and then, being a man of breadth and hospitality, sent out invitations to his friends in three States to drop in and share his luck. Not one of the invited guests sent regrets.
It can't be very long since we got off the right track, for I remember the current against my legs. We will go back after a while and find the turning." "In this pitch darkness?" exclaimed Nugget. "We will feel our way along the wall," said Ned, "and if the canoes are in the road we'll abandon them. We won't start now though. Sit down and take a good rest. You will need it."
For what could you have done for money, with the Yankees cutting each other's throats, and your nugget quite sure to be annexed, or, at the very best, squared up in greenbacks?" "You ought not to speak so, Major Hockin. If all your plans were not under water, I should be quite put out with you. My cousin was not bedridden; neither was he at all incapable, as you have called him once or twice.
"If Nugget was alive he would surely have heard our shouts or seen the lights. We won't know anything positively until morning. It could do no good to paddle up the creek again in the darkness, so we had better wait here as patiently as we can." No objection was made to this plan, and the boys crawled in among the bushes and sat down with Clay's lantern between them.
Some depose that an emigrant bought it of the baby; but no one knows. What all men do know is that gold does not die; nay, nor the news of it. And this news now, like a multiplying germ, was in the wagon train that had started out for Oregon. As for Molly, she asked no questions at all about the lost nugget, but hurried to her own bed, supperless, pale and weeping.
Meanwhile, Villiers having heard the name of Pierre Lemaire, and knowing he was engaged in the Pactolus claim, came round to see him and try to find out all about the nugget.
They struck the wash-dirt in their first claim, and Jim, in sinking through the alluvial, stuck his pick into the largest nugget he had yet seen, a lump of rugged gold, pure and clean, which Mike estimated to be worth four hundred pounds.
Ki, it developed, when they reached the Watterby farm, had been busy with farewell plans of his own. "For you," he announced gravely to Bob, handing him an immense hunting knife as he stepped out of the car. "For you," he informed Betty with equal gravity, presenting her a little silver nugget.
Such was my little experience in mine-prospecting. I must also tell of my still smaller experience in gold-seeking. One morning a little boy brought in a nugget for sale, which he had picked up from a heap of dirt, while he was strolling down the lead outside the town.
We had made, as Fred said, a good day's work for the firm, for, of course, Smith's interest was equal to our own, and he shared in any speculation that we might enter into; but while I am on the subject, I may as well tell of a money-making operation that entirely eclipsed the above transaction, even including the finding of the nugget.
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