Jimmy Boy

urely along toward a place that

each," sa

it isn't a beach a

mean? What els

of something that certainly looked

ey all asked, as they sifte

d in a sup

hought it was when I first saw it; I got cheated, same

ange if she, a girl in her teens, couldn't tell sand when she saw it! But she politely refrained from making an

re just powdered

o powdered them? Wh

rocks in the mine into powder just as fine as they c

these tailings are what's lef

spread 'em 'round here to

bit?" asked Jimmy. "Seems as if I c

ough. Mr. Templeton says the folks in 'Frisco that own the mine think there'

Yes, there was a faint shine to

way. It goes ever so far down,"

," replied Nate, proud of his know

e. "Exactly like sand. And it stretches out so far that you'd

the like of that. When there's anything going on, they get out the brass band and ha

e now," remarked Edith. "And w

ey have the brass band sit; that's

ve fireworks while we'

s having 'em. And I heard somebody

not know what a barbecue might

ud-puddle right here by t

t is a damp spot

d to be water here once," said Jimmy at a venture. "There's w

f a sudden and pic

before!" But next moment s

ver get into this mud-

before it dried up," replied

med in surprise;

n things are so queer up here that

this is a dry year, you know, and it's all dried up." Kyzie forgave the lake for dry

s of houses! Did

the miners, ever so long ago when the mine was going. Fixed up in

d the shaft-house and

hat the old gold mine, that monst

were glad baby Eddo was safely out of the way. The mine was a deep, irregular chasm, full of dirty water and rocks. It h

uld ever have dug for gold in tha

" said the young guide. "They used to g

f the nuggets, but like

you 'twas the richest mine in

" said Kyzie, gazing regret

nough left down there to buy up the whole Un

at's a vein?"

n streaks; they call it veins. The miners had to stop digging here

mmy-boy, who thought Nate w

from I-forget where. He's a splendid mining engineer, great for fi

the vein and things, and we'll be h

en you laughed," broke in Lucy. "I said I'd

spellbound at t

eps! The men will get kil

e walls down there, stone walls,

ies," but had fo

same!" said Edith. "That water ought to be let out, Nate Pollard! If the colonel is coming ne

ecome suddenly very interesting to all the children. It certainly looked like a rough, wild, frightful hole; nothing more than a hole; but if ther

they've sent for that

lied Nate, who did not lik

Oh, aren't you glad we came to Castle Cli

ever could look forward to any pleasure without

ere is to see," remarked Nate, who had

ing of "tailings" and "nuggets," they

ugh," said Nate, taking from his pocket a hand

is it?" they all asked. "A

on. 'Twill ring again in the evening at nine o'clock. B

cried Kyzie. She had read of "the mellow lin-lan-lone of eveni

r yet, they kept on to the hollow where the schoolhouse stood. It

rapping her kodak. "I want a snap-shot at it. Stand there by that t

nning down the hill, and one of them was barefooted. Moreover, when K

g off his hat, "and his name,"-pointing to his com

d in a choked voice, digging his toes into the dirt, "qu

hs, Kyzie thanked the urchins very pleasant

at again very respectfully, "Are you going to k

could think of her as a teacher! She was now a tall girl of fourteen, with a fine strong face and an earnest manner. She was beginning to tire of be

n't teach school in sum

a girl kep' this school last summer. She called it 'vacat

Little, "licked and pulled ea

eave, running up hill with great speed, as if they thought

" said Nate. "The boys like to plague him

atharine turned her head more than on

ring that 'lin-lan-lone bell' to call in the scholars?

ll not get me to worrying over botany. I studied it a month onc

her class, and was always tearing up flowers in the most wasteful manner. Worse than that, she

well as I do, Kyzie, or y

ned sister after Kyzie had made "a litt

lhouse and the sweet-toned bell and the singular speech of Joe Rolfe, about w

t zebra kitty," said Edith. "What will t