Lang, Andrew, Burn-Murdoch, W. G. (Illus.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 46
A BORDER BOYHOOD 27 burn of the pine-tree stump. The water runs in deep pools and streams over a blue slatey rock, which contains gold under the sand, in the worn holes and crevices. My friend, Mr. McAllister, … the schoolmaster at St. Mary’s, tells me that one day, when fish were not rising, he scooped out the gravel of one of these holes with his knife, and found a tiny nugget, after which the gold-hunting
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