We could have saved seven by walking.

However, there was no hurry.
Bendigo was another of the rich strikes of the early days.

It does a great quartz-mining business, now--that business which, more than any other that I know of, teaches patience, and requires grit and a steady nerve.

The town is full of towering chimney-stacks, and hoisting-works, and looks like a petroleum-city.

Speaking of patience; for example, one of the local companies went steadily on with its deep borings and searchings without show of gold or a penny of reward for eleven years -- then struck it, and became suddenly rich.