human
What do you think of his story about finding that nugget in a cave where the floor is covered with gold nuggets as thickly as pebbles on the bed of a stony river? Do you suppose it is true or, just one of the queer notions that sometimes come to the dying?
gpt
Great Moses, I forgot all about the gold! and Thure's face flushed with excitement.
human
Quick, let's get the body on the grass and then we'll have another look at the nugget. That was a powerful queer story he told; but it might be true. And if it is true, and his eyes sparkled,
gpt
Glory! But isn't it heavy? and Bud balanced the nugget in one hand.
human
And it looks and feels and weighs like gold! It must be gold.
gpt
It sure does look like gold, agreed Thure.
human
It looks and feels just like the nuggets dad sent home, only larger. Oh, if we only could find the cave where it came from! Let me see, he said that it was in the Golden Elbow of Crooked Arm Gulch, in Lot's Canyon, near a white pillar of rock and a big tree that we must climb to the third limb--a mighty queer place I call that to find a cave! I reckon he must have been lunaticy,
gpt
Well, he certainly found gold, and this proves it, and Bud tossed the big nugget up in the air and caught it as it came down,
human
Yes, yes, that was the little roll of white skin I pulled first out of the bag, and Thure's eyes searched eagerly the ground.
gpt
Here it is!