We'll grass him in two seconds.

Californy never saw a sight like this, I reckon." There was plenty of room for us all to stand round the monster and admire it.

In shape it was just like a fat toad, squatting with his shoulders up and panting.

Even a rough resemblance to the head and the haunches might be discovered, and a few spots of quartz shone here and there on the glistening and bossy surface.

Some of us began to feel and handle it with vast admiration; but Firm, with his heavy boots, made a vicious kick at it, and a few bright scales, like sparks, flew off.
"Why, what ails the lad ?" cried the Sawyer, in some wrath; "what harm hath the stone ever done to him?
To my mind, this here lump is a proof of the whole creation of the world, and who hath lived long enough to gainsay?
Here this lump hath lain, without changing color, since creation's day; here it is, as big and heavy as when the Lord laid hand to it.