TWILIGHT LAND

buzz in the heads of John and Jacob Stuck. ‘‘ Why,”
said they, “as for that, to be sure, a chest of silver
.money is a great thing for three students to find who
had nothing better than book-learning to help them
along ; but who knows but that there is something better
even than silver money out in the wide world?” So,
after all, and in spite of the chest of silver money they
had found, the two of them were for going on to try their
fortunes a little farther. And as for Joseph, why, after
all, when he came to think of it, he was not sorry to have
his chest of silver money all to himself.

So the two travelled on and on for a while, here and
there and everywhere, until at last it was John’s ball that
slipped out of his fingers and fell to the ground. They
digged where it fell, and this time it was a chest of gold
money they found. :

Yes; a chest of gold money! A chest of real gold
money! They just stood and stared and stared, for if
they had not seen it they would not have believed that
such a thing could have been in the world. ‘ Well, Jacob
Stuck,” said John, “it was well to travel a bit farther
than poor Joseph did, was it not? What is a chest of
silver money to such a treasure as this? Come, brother,
here is enough to make us both rich for all the rest
of our lives. We need look for nothing better than
this.” :

But no; by-and-by Jacob Stuck began to cool down
again, and now that second thoughts were coming to him
he would not even be satisfied with a half-share of a
chest of gold money. No; maybe there might be some-
thing better than even a chest ‘full of gold money to be
found in the world. As for John, why, after all, he was

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