I didn't find any gold, but I found, just across there by those willows and alders, a cold stream entered the lake, and right in the mouth of it the trout were lyin' as thick as your fingers.

Believe me, Sir, 'tis trueI feigned a danger nearjust as you got to bedand I was the kind Devil, Sir, that brought the Gold to you.

Chorus. 'Tis enough, you once shall find, Fortune may to Worth be kind; [gives him Gold.

But the poor traveller found nothing but butter, for the Jew had taken the gold.

On that morning when Eric set out from his home he took with him a little chest containing gold and silver; he hid this treasure and then went his way.

Why, he built Fort Reliance six miles below the mouth of the Klondyke in '73; he discovered gold on the Stewart in '85, and established a post there.

" "The occupants of the motor-cars carrying gold to Russia are said to have transferred the precious metal to cyclists dressed as bricklayers.

" "Has he got gold?" Dillon nodded.

They are close together, and their ores, producing gold, silver, and lead, are all similar.

Jewels or metals of any kind were not seen among them, except some small plates of gold which hung from their nostrils; and on being questioned from whence they procured the gold, they answered by signs that they had it from the south, where there was a king who possessed abundance of pieces and vessels of gold; and they made our people to understand that there were many other islands and large countries to the south and southwest.

In June, 1920, the government of Moscow sent some gold to Sweden to purchase indispensable goods.

There lay his work; to do all that he could to hide Gus Ingle's gold.

He was seeking the gold of the Yukon placers; perhaps he found, beyond the Great White Silence, his Dinah.

Then began a hasty move on the part of both girls and boys to count the gold and silver.

I meant to make some poor devil dig out my Minóok gold for me.

"Yestreen I met a winsome lass, a bonny lass was she, As ever climbed the mountain-side, or tripped aboon the lea; She wore nae gold, nae jewels bright, nor silk nor satin rare, But just the plaidie that a queen might well be proud to wear.

They had no arms, but they took them down from the temples; men were wanting, but slaves were freed to take the oath of service; the treasury was exhausted, but the senate willingly offered their wealth for the public service, leaving themselves no gold but what was contained in their children's bullæ and in their own belts and rings.

Specious assumption, too; but that requires brass, and I want gold.

Thus they, alas, threw away the gold of human affections among the dross of this world's comfort and honour.

In visions wild and sweet Sometimes its courts I greet: Sometimes in joy its shining halls I tread with favored feet; But never my eyes in the light of day Were blest with its ivied walls, Where the marble white and the granite gray Turn gold alike when the sunbeams play, When the soft day dimly falls.

The first author we are acquainted with who talks of making gold by the transmutation of one metal, by means of an alcahest[70] into another, is Zozimus the Pomopolite, who lived about the commencement of the fifth century, and who has a treatise express upon it, called, "The divine art of making gold and silver," in manuscript, and is, as formerly, in the library of the King of France.

But so might one who had been unfaithful to a trusting wife and was now risking his neck to pour gold into the greedy lap of a frowsy mistress.

And with them, I gather your gold.

And if he say unto us, nay, let us buy much gold and make many shekels."

First of all, he paid out to me the gold I had lost from my ship at Accomac, with all the gravity in the world, as if it had been an ordinary merchant's bargain.