"Well," continued Billy, "nobody but me knows how that little gal's heart was set on to thet mine. She'd come an' stand by the hour an' see me work in it. I worked there long o' Scholfield some six weeks: we was all took in putty bad. She'd come an' stand an' look an' look, and talk about what her father 'n' mother could do with the money; never so much 's a word about any thing she'd like herself; an' yet I could see her hull heart was jest set on it. And yet's soon 's 'twas clear an' sartin that the mine wan't good for any thing, she jest give it all up; and there hain't never come a complainin' or a disapp'inted word out o' her mouth. 'Twas her own mine too,--and after her namin' it and all. I've seen many a man in this country broken all up by no worse a disappointment than that child had. She's been jest a lesson to me: she has. I declare I never go by the pesky mine without thinking o' the day when she danced up and sez she, 'I'll name it! I'll name it "The Good Luck!"'" "Ach, veil!" said Mr. Kleesman, "she haf better than any silver mine in her own self. She haf such goot-vill, such patient, such true, she haf always 'goot luck.' She are 'Goot Luck mine' her own self." * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Spelling and punctuation have been retained except as noted. crestfallen and crest-fallen are both used doorstep and door-step are both used Nelly and Nellie were both used, standardized to Nelly. Page 141 beause changed to because (because they come very early) Page 175 than changed to then (then a loud burst of laughter) Page 203 thmselves changed to themselves (settle all such matters themselves) Page 213 by changed to be (be one way to pay) Page 231 stroke changed to stroked (stroked his long, white beard) Page 242 stopped changed to stooped (stooped over and kissed Page 278 seek changed to see (to see her look troubled.); never changed to ever (thing I ever saw) Page 305 ancester changed to ancestor (like my famous ancestor) End of Project Gutenberg's Nelly's Silver Mine, by Helen Hunt Jackson