human
Welcome, friend--welcome. Come in, come in. Make yourself at home. Have you brought any locusts with you? Lots of them--swarms, to eat up what little grass the drought has left. Have you brought them, I say? Aha--fine things, locusts! Don't know how we should get on without them. Grand things for this Country! Fine country this! Green as an emerald. Emeralds, no, diamonds. But there isn't a `stone' on the place, devil a `stone.'
gpt
Locusts! Emeralds! Diamonds! echoes the stranger in amazement.
human
Scott, but the poor chap's clean off his chump--clean off it! What on earth am I to do with him, or with myself either for the matter of that?
gpt
Not a `stone' on the place! goes on the speaker, in a mournful tone.
human
I've fossicked high and low, and there isn't one--not one. Ah, but-- the Valley of the Eye! Come, friend. We will start at once. You shall make your fortune. Dirk! Dirk!