"Still, lakes as big as that one don't vanish." "Anyway, mines seem to do so.

The woods are full of them, if all one hears is true." "It isn't," said Weston dryly, "though I've no doubt there are a few lost mines.

Are you sure you haven't done a crazy thing in joining us in the hunt for this one?
Of course, I've tried to put that aspect of the matter squarely before you already." Devine, who was a young man, flushed slightly.
"The cold fact is that I was only afraid you wouldn't take me.

It's a big inducement to know that one has a reasonable supply of provisions in hand." "You've evidently been up against it, like the rest of us," Grenfell suggested.
"I've lived for three months on the proceeds of the only job I got; and it's quite likely I shouldn't have held out if I hadn't been broken into the thing while I got through with my studies in Toronto.
I don't quite know now how I did that, but I had to hire out between whiles, teaming and dredging up building stone from the lake, to make my fees, and now and then I lived on one meal a day to spin out the money.

It would have been easier at the settlement, but I had a lesson soon after I put up my sign.