Excerpt: ...remarked Steve. "You mean by introducing the same kind of grit in some hundreds of shellfish, and making the things work up a lot of fine pearls, eh, Steve?" "That's what. Don't you think it could be done, Max?" "Well, I've heard it's been tried, but since the price of pearls has advanced all the while, I guess the success of the experiment wasn't so much," the other went on to say, as he bent his head down quickly to scrutinize the contents of his opened shell. "Oh!" gasped Steve, catching his breath. "What's ...
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Excerpt: ...remarked Steve. "You mean by introducing the same kind of grit in some hundreds of shellfish, and making the things work up a lot of fine pearls, eh, Steve?" "That's what. Don't you think it could be done, Max?" "Well, I've heard it's been tried, but since the price of pearls has advanced all the while, I guess the success of the experiment wasn't so much," the other went on to say, as he bent his head down quickly to scrutinize the contents of his opened shell. "Oh!" gasped Steve, catching his breath. "What's the matter?" asked Max, his own voice as steady and calm as ever. "Looky here, will you, Max-ain't that a beaut, though?" The excited Steve managed to pluck some small object out of the opened shell he held, though his fingers trembled like the quivering leaves of an aspen. When he placed this in the palm of his hand it was seen to be a lovely little milk-white pearl, nearly half the size of a buckshot. "That looks good to me," remarked Max. "Just as fine as the one we lost, eh, Steve?" "You bet it is; and we'll make sure no thief lays hands on this beauty, Max," replied the delighted finder of the new treasure. "Now, suppose, just for luck, I took a notion to go you one better," chuckled Max. "Hey! what d'ye mean?" exclaimed his chum. "Have you been shaking hands with Good Luck as well as me? Open up, and show what you've got." "Shut your eyes, and count five," laughed Max; "now look, and see what I found." "My goodness gracious; why, it's half again as big as my find; a regular jim-dandy pearl, Max," cried Steve, trembling all over with, eager delight, as his enraptured eyes fell upon the object Max exposed. "Yes, much larger, I admit," the other went on to say with due deliberation; "but not quite so perfect in form. Your pearl might prove to be the more valuable one when it came to selling them." "Oh! just to think of it, Max, we've got two already," Steve remarked as he took both the prizes in his hand, and surveyed them with that...
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