Firm and I will begin tomorrow." "But where is all the money to come from, Uncle Sam?
You said that all your friends had refused to help you." "Never mind, my dear.

I will help myself.

It won't be the first time, perhaps, in my life." "But supposing that I could help you, just some little?
Supposing that I had found the biggest lump of gold ever found in all California ?" Mr.Gundry ought to have looked surprised, and I was amazed that he did not; but he took it as quietly as if I had told him that I had just picked up a brass button of his; and I thought that he doubted my knowledge, very likely, even as to what gold was.
"It is gold, Uncle Sam, every bit of it gold--here is a piece of it; just look--and as large, I am sure, as this table.

And it may be as deep as this room, for all that one can judge to the contrary.

Why, it stopped the big pile from coming to the top, when even you went down the river." "Well, now, that explains a thing or two," said the Sawyer, smiling peacefully, and beginning to think of another pipe, if preparation meant any thing.