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Updated: August 4, 2024
One of those tall, lean, wiry-looking fellows with clothes so well-fitting that a pocket-full of bank-notes would have utterly destroyed the desired effect. He wore very long and very pointed shoes, and a peculiar little hat, made of hideous tweed, with flaps tied over the low crown with fluttering ribbons.
It was indeed a thought to make the rich man glad, that all his shining heap was just like a sample of seed-corn, and the pocket-full should next year fill a sack.
The holes commenced yesterday were duly "bottomed," but no nice pocket-full of gold was the result; our shipmates, however, met with better success, having found three small nuggets weighing two to four ounces each at a depth of not quite five feet from the surface. To-day was spent in puddling and cradling. Puddling is on the same principle as tin-dish-washing, only on a much larger scale.
There are some who have done better, even to 4000 dollars in a month; many 1000 dollars during the summer; and others, who refused to join a company of gold-washers who had a cheap-made machine, and receive one ounce per day, that returned to the settlement with not a vest pocket-full of gold.
The lad decided on the side of caution. "A good man," he replied quietly. "A man who will face a firing squad without a tremor, secure in the belief he is dying for a good cause." "And do you not think the cause good, and just?" demanded Jules, anxiously. "If not, why should I be the bearer of a pocket-full of black peas?" was Hal's reply. Jules, apparently, was satisfied.
I resolved therefore on keeping the deck as I best could, by the help of a stout dread-nought, a pocket-full of cigars, and a mild infusion of old cognac, provided for me by a considerate friend.
It was indeed a thought to make the rich man glad, that all his shining heap was just like a sample of seed-corn, and the pocket-full should next year fill a sack.
'We return at moonrise, he said to the old woman as he turned away. 'Good luck, good luck to ee, quavered the crone. 'A pocket-full o' yallow shiners for yourself, me fine dear. And she waved her withered arm after the robber many times.
She was on her way to Fall River, where she had relatives, and where she hoped for help, but had no money to pay her fare, so I divided my small stock with her, and that left me just one dollar and a half with which to begin the world again. I went down to the bridge and the toll gatherer gave me as much as I could eat, twenty five cents in money, and a pocket-full of food to carry with me.
A great part are decayed on the ground, and the sound ones are more palatable than before. The note of the chickadee sounds now more distinct, as you wander amid the old trees, and the autumnal dandelion is half-closed and tearful. But still, if you are a skilful gleaner, you may get many a pocket-full even of grafted fruit, long after apples are supposed to be gone out-of-doors.
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