After being exhibited in Melbourne, the 'Welcome' nuggetwas brought to London and smelted in November 1859.
The Bank purchased the nugget for L9534, which the erstwhile so unlucky, but now so fortunate, pair of Cornish miners divided equally between them.
A peculiarity about this nugget was the manner in which it had eluded the efforts of previous parties to capture it.
A notable instance of rapid fortune was that of a party of four, who, having been but a few months in the colony of Victoria, were lucky enough to alight on a nugget weighing 1615 ounces.
Its most famous nugget was discovered by a native boy in June 1851 at Meroo Creek, near the present town of Bathurst.
Worse than this, the bad men would become aware of the existence of a rich nugget mine, and they would claim it for their own.
Perhaps they will show you where to pick up a small nugget or two as a souvenir of your visit.
Nugget in shape of eagle's head presented to author.
I remember Jacobi telling me that a nugget of gold had been found in the drift of a river close to his house.
Simpson had this nugget mounted as a brooch for the lady to whom he was engaged to be married.
And would it be greater or less than would remain after a like process applied, say, to a sovereign or to a nugget of gold?
He had scarcely made an impression on that tundra, and not a singlenugget had we seen.
While encamped there resting, a man herding the cattle picked up a large nugget of gold and from that find originated the famous blue nugget gold find, but the spot has never been located again, at least no mine has been discovered.
Gold was being taken out of the Nugget mine at the rate of several lbs.
There was a trifling difference of two hundred and fifty feet in the altitude of the Nuggetclaim and the bluff adjoining it, and Corbett's claim was on the top of that bluff.
Nugget claim, and had been regularly taken up and bonded by his partner and himself.
At the museum of this latter city we saw a cast which was taken of the largest nugget ever found in Australia.
A nugget was also discovered here, which should be mentioned even in this by no means complete list.
While the author was in Sydney, a gold nugget was found at Maitland Bar and brought to that city, for which the Commercial Bank of the metropolis paid the finder the handsome sum of seven thousand six hundred dollars.
But, one day, when I had got quite sick at fruitlessly working in the hole, on accidentally looking up, sure enough there was my nugget sticking up in the pipeclay, just as I had dreamt of it.
One morning a little boy brought in a nugget for sale, which he had picked up from a heap of dirt, while he was strolling down the lead outside the town.
He had to go take my breast-pin nuggetfrom the Early Bird.
The others replied by applying their spurs, and in a short time they dismounted before the Nugget and Rope.
At ten o'clock they dismounted before the Nugget and Rope, an unpainted wooden building supposed to be a clever combination of barroom, dance and gambling hall and hotel.
And Hazel was in a gleeful mood over the fact that she had unearthed a big nugget by herself.
And you might prospect this creek from end to end and never find another nuggetbigger than a pea.
You know of course, Prince, that it was not he who made us what we are, but my redoubtable grandfather with his Paradise nugget and Blockhead Farm.
The text adds a few more illustrative instances of similar nature, 'As by one nugget of gold all that is made of gold is known; as by one pair of nail-scissors all that is made of iron is known.
For what is capable of being proved, and manifestly meant to be proved, by the illustrative instances of the lump of clay and the nugget of gold, through which there are known all things made of clay and gold?
But I'm tired, boys, and I believe I shall have to go off to sleep, nugget or no nugget.
It will only be for one night, as to-morrow we can make arrangements to send the nugget by express to Melbourne.
Even if the nugget wasn't real, you had no claim to it.
Meanwhile the commissioner was weighing the nugget on a pair of scales.
They will take the money we have with us, but if ever we escape to Melbourne, there is the nugget money waiting for us.
It will realize a good round sum, as the one from which the nugget has been taken.
We haven't got the nugget yet," answered the captain dryly.
The nugget was taken from the enfolding bandanna, and dropped into the trunk, which Obed placed at the head of his pallet.
Jack was told of their plan of removing the nugget by night, and saw at once that it was a wise one.
It's right around your neck, in that nugget locket you wear there.
For a moment Bill Gregg hated the other with his eyes, and then he submitted with a sheepish grin, took off the locket, which was made of one big nugget rudely beaten into shape, and opened it for the benefit of Ronicky Doone.
He got the biggest nugget that he's ever taken out of the dirt.
Here's a bottle of pop and your nugget for nothing," said the kind-hearted shopkeeper, with a laugh.
And we can't go home without a singlenugget to buy presents with, or dada'll be sure to whack us.
If we both work hard for a few minutes p'r'aps we'll find a tiny nugget that we can change for real ginger-beer and buns at the store.
In the center of the pan there gleamed dully a nugget of pure gold as big as a pea!
You remember I kept this little nugget from my share in the buckskin bag, intending to have a scarf-pin made of it," he explained.
Gleaming richly among the pebbles which he held was a nugget of pure gold, a nuggetso large that Rod gave a wild yell, and in that one moment forgot that John Ball, the mad hunter, was dead or dying beneath the fall!
For no moment did he doubt it; not for an instant did he fear that there might be no more gold in the sand and gravel from which Wabigoon's nugget had come.
In Wabi's pan there was no nuggetbut it was rich with the gleam of fine gold.
With the exception of one nuggethe had found only fine gold.
Rod passed the golden nuggetto the old Indian, and rose to his feet.
Waiting on table at the Golden Nugget and later bearing children and helping on the ranch had not left her time for historical study.
Mother, whom you never could count on, had begun to talk about the days when she was waitress in The Golden Nugget Hotel--broke into it as if it didn't matter at all.
With down-drooped head she heard the cultured accents of the only perfect nugget she had ever met murmur reproachfully.
Peace and security exerted their appeal, and after looking about for a few reflective years, he had married the prettiest waitress in the Golden Nugget Hotel in Placerville and settled down to farming.
Next day we made a start, promising the girls a nugget each for a ring out of the first gold we got, and they promised to write to us and tell us if they heard any news.
But of course some allowance had to be made for men not making much above wages when they came suddenly on a biggish stone, and sticking the pick into it found it to be a gigantic nugget worth a small fortune.
You wouldn't spoil such a nugget as that by cutting it up, would you?
He was breathless and speechless for a few minutes, but I at length obtained information that two miners had come across a nugget of gold so large that half a dozen men were unable to lift it from the shaft.
For the first time we really noticed our countryman's peculiar dialect and manners, and it gave us more pleasure to see a genuine Yankee at the mines of Ballarat than it would had we found a nugget weighing a pound.
Do you mean that you have found a nugget of gold as large as your head?
I'll go this nugget that the Yankee hits his man at the first fire," cried one fellow, holding up a lump of virgin gold as large as a hen's egg.
I'll fight for ye, mind, for faith, I've won a nugget on ye.
We intended to send to the store for the purpose of getting a stout bucket, into which we could put our nugget and carry it to the office; but Mike would not listen to the suggestion for a moment.
After I had succeeded in my efforts, we set to work and raised the mighty nugget to the surface, but instead of its weighing two or three hundred pounds, it weighed one hundred and ten.
After breakfast Jonas Packer returned, bringing quite a respectable paddle on which he had been working since daybreak, and a broad brimmed straw hat, which Nugget regarded as a very poor substitute for his trim yachting cap.
Clay was chaffed unmercifully about the calf, and Nugget also came in for a goodly share of ridicule.
Ned's face flushed with joy, and paddling alongside of Nugget he snatched the cord.
The truth of this terse remark was readily appreciated by Clay's companions, and their present amazement and consternation on learning that Nugget wanted to go canoeing with them, can be easily conceived.
Finally Ned and Clay broke into a hearty laugh, while Nugget sat down on a rock and wiped the tears from his eyes.
A short distance below the dam the water became very sluggish, and the boys knew that if Nugget was ahead of them they must speedily overtake him.
There sat Nugget at the kitchen table, making a fierce onslaught on ham and fried potatoes.
As Nugget blushed an angry red, and made no reply, it is to be presumed that Clay's remark contained more truth than fiction.
Nugget was not aware of this at first, for he uttered another piercing cry for help.
Nugget dropped his paddle with a cry of terror and clutched the combing.
Nugget faced the situation with remarkable fortitude, and uttered but few complaints.
The brute reluctantly obeyed, whileNugget sought shelter in a young tree.
