The first is of the animal kingdom, and varyin in size from a 3 yeer old snappin' turtle, to a lode of hay.

"The agreement goes on to say that Jack Harpe found gold-bearing lodes in both of Slippery's old tunnels, that these claims will be properly relocated and registeredI guess that's where Jakey Pooley come inand all three mines will be worked by a company made up of these four men, each man to receive one quarter of the profits.

"Perhaps they are the men going to guard the Lost Lode for the night," Horace whispered.

Quartz reefs occasionally traversed the country in a north-north-east and south-south-west direction, or nearly the same as the mineral lodes at Champion Bay; but I could not find any instance in which this rock offered much to indicate the probable existence of gold, it being far surpassed in this respect by the rocks on the Upper Murchison.

Say, Bobby Lawrence knows a white man when he meets one. Give me a horse and I'll have you at the Lost Lode before dark to-night!" CHAPTER XXIII IN THE MOUNTAINS

In this he has struck upon a deeper and richer lode than even Wordsworth, although he has not wrought it with half his skill.

He found the John Logan lode without much difficulty, and followed its length with less, for the simple reason that its course lay over the round brow of a hill bare of trees.