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'He micht, returned McIntosh, cautiously, 'if he didna ken a' aboot the lie of the mine o'er yonder, putting one finger on the plan and pointing with the other to the right of the tunnel; 'we found a twenty-ounce nugget yesterday, and ain afore that o' twenty-five, and in the first face we were at twa months ago o'er there, pointing to the left, 'there was yin big ain I ca'd the Villiers nugget, which as ye ken is Madame's name.
Nuggets, some large, some small, began to be constantly discovered, and every day news was brought into Ballarat about the turning-up of a thirty-ounce or a twenty-ounce nugget in the Pactolus, when, to crown all, the news came and ran like wildfire through the city that a three hundred ounce nugget had been unearthed.
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