very large pan of diamonds indeed! I must e'en go home to my wife, and
tell her the whole affair, and get her to assist me in turning it up."
Away, therefore, he goes, and acquaints his wife with every circumstance
of their good fortune. Her raptures on this occasion may easily be
imagined; she flew round his neck, and embraced him in an agony of joy:
but those transports, however, did not delay their eagerness to know the
exact sum; returning, therefore, speedily together to the place where
Whang had been digging, there they found--not indeed the expected
treasure, but the mill, their only support, undermined and fallen.

GOLDSMITH.


[Note: _He stood for a child of mine_, i.e., stood as godfather for a
child of mine.]




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A SEA SONG.


A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast,
And fills the white and rustling sail