This lot should assay out, anyway, several ounces to the ton." The prospector made a little grave sign of agreement, for this was a game to which he was more or less accustomed.

Lode ore now and then is of somewhat uniform quality, but at times it varies in richness in a rather striking manner; and the storekeeper had spent six or seven hours picking out the most promising specimens.

From these he had trimmed off every fragment in which, as far as he could discern, the precious metal was not present, with the result that any mineralogist to whom they might be handed could certify to the richness of the Grenfell Consolidated.

Saunders was a business man, and quite aware that the vendor of any kind of goods, when asked for samples, does not, as a rule, submit indifferent ones.
"I guess," he added, probably referring to prospective investors, "this lot ought to fetch them.

You asked the boys to come along, Devine ?" Devine said he had done so, and in a few more minutes several little groups of men, in dilapidated long boots and somewhat ragged duck, who had ceased work for their mid-day meal, gathered round the fir.