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Updated: May 27, 2025
The last visitor to Surprise Lake, was Smoke's conclusion, as he picked up a lump of gold as large as his doubled fist. Beside the lump was a pepper-can filled with nuggets of the size of walnuts, rough-surfaced, showing no signs of wash. So true had the tale run that Smoke accepted without question that the source of the gold was the lake's bottom.
But Reginald stood firm, and he presently rode away, quite sure that in a day or two this planter, too, would have heard the news. A month later, the young coffee-planter stood on the deck of a steamer homeward bound. In his pocket-book was a plan of his auriferous estate; in a bag hanging round his neck was a small collection of yellow nuggets; in his boxes was a chosen assortment of quartz.
The legs of my bunk had actually been sunk in the richest part of the ground, they must have literally been touching some of the nuggets. This was but one of the several occasions upon which I all but grasped the skirts of Fortune. Soon a water-race was brought in from the opposite side of the valley on the southern slope of the saddle a distance of about four miles.
It cleaned off its rust and began to oil its joints and look to its tools. With the first news it, metaphorically, "reared up." Then Will came into town with a bag of dust and nuggets, and the optical demonstration set lips smacking and eyes gleaming with envy and covetousness. They asked "Where?" But Will shook his head with a cunning leer. Let them go and seek it as he had to do, he said.
At Ophir, and Braidwood, and Maroo the most industrious and sagacious miners were generally rewarded by the discovery of fine pieces of gold, for which the Californian name of "nuggets" now began to be extensively used.
During their absence the children had collected a great deal, sometimes finding nuggets as large as a walnut. "Oh! well," said Jones, in a fretful tone, when the children displayed their wealth before him, "I can get enough when I am over the mountains, if I have missed it to-day." "As for that, we will share with you," said Jane.
And still, it is precisely at those moments that he feels most the difference between himself and Antony Watteau. "In that country, all the pebbles are golden nuggets," he says; with perfect good-humour. June 1716.
All radiate from one point, a knot which gives 'great expectations. The natives have opened large man-holes in search of loose gold, and here, tradition says, many nuggets have been found. A greater number will come to light when the miners shall dig the 'blind creek' to the east, and when the roots of the secular trees crowning the summit shall be laid bare by the hose.
Men from the South too, and men from the East, had left their ploughs and their pens, their factories, pulpits, and easy-chairs, each man like a magnetic needle suddenly set free and turning sharply to the North; all set pointing the self-same way since that July day in '97, when the Excelsior sailed into San Francisco harbour, bringing from the uttermost regions at the top of the map close upon a million dollars in nuggets and in gold-dust.
What to it are nuggets and millions'? The French financier said 'Why is there no sleep to be sold! Sleep was not in the market at any quotation.... I find that you could not get any better definition of what 'holy' really is than 'healthy. Completely healthy; mens sana in corpore sano. A man all lucid, and in equilibrium.
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