If you can put in a couple of thousand pounds or so between you, you can travel about and see the country, and your money'll be working for you all the time.

Did you ever see a gold mine ?' They owned that they never yet had been a yard below ground.

Then he opened his gate preparatory to taking them down the 'Old Stick-in-the-Mud,' and brought them with him into one of the front rooms.

It was a large parlour, only half furnished, not yet papered, without a carpet, in which it appeared that Mr.Crinkett kept his own belongings.

Here he divested himself of his black clothes and put on a suit of miner's garments,--real miner's garments, very dirty, with a slouch hat, on the top of which there was a lump of mud in which to stick a candle-end.