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eld the nugget! * * * * * Five years have passed. Donald is the richest man in Silver Creek County, and his great mines are worked by hundreds of men. He lives in a great house, sumptuously furnished and full of precious things, which he delights to show to the many visitors who flock to see his mine. But of all these precious things, by far the most precious is Gum, the monkey without a tail, 'the finder of his first nugget, and the founder of his fortunes,' as he says to everybody. Then he tells how Gum found the nugget, and how it was stolen and once more brought back; and how when Gum got better, the two went back to the spot where the big lump was found, and searched and searched, and found lump after lump and nugget after nugget, until, in a few months, more gold was hidden below Donald's bed than had come from all the mines put together since they first were opened. Then the good man calls out a word in Gaelic, and the monkey without a tail jumps into his arms to be caressed, and Donald asks his guests to read the inscription on the golden collar round its neck:-- TO FAITHFUL GUM FROM HIS GRATEFUL MASTER. Made out of the first nugget--August 2nd, 1888. [Illustration: THE MOST PRECIOUS OF ALL IS GUM] End of Project Gutenberg's The Monkey That Would Not Kill, by Henry Drummond *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MONKEY THAT WOULD NOT KILL *** ***** This file should be named 29254.txt or 29254.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/2/5/29254/ Produced by David Edwards, Meredith Bach, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a
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