If so be now, afore the water was run out, you had stood on that there bridge, and dropped a bright coin into it, a new half crown or a two-shilling piece, why, the chances would be that the run of the current would 'a taken it nigh to the likeliest spot for holding any other little matter as might 'a dropped, permiskous, you might say, into this same water." "I have done so," I answered; "I have done that very thing, though not at all with that object.

The day before yesterday a beautiful coin, a golden eagle of America, fell from my pocket on that upper plank, and rolled into the water.

I would not lose it for a great deal, because it was given to me by my dearest friend, the greatest of all millers." "And ha'n't you found it yet, miss?
Well, that is queer.

Perhaps we shall find it now, with something to the back of it.

I thought yon hole was too far below the bridge.