Nancy I expect I turned as white as a sheet! Why, it might have caught fire and told everything.

I showed him it was too crumbly.

Then he was going to build it of copper ore--splendid yellow forty-per-cent.

ore! There's fortunes upon fortunes of copper ore on our land! It scared me to death, the idea of this fool starting a smelting furnace in his house without knowing it, and getting his dull eyes opened.

And then he was going to build it of iron ore! There's mountains of iron ore here, Nancy--whole mountains of it.