Shoe-Bar Stratton - Chapter 24

Jessup swallowed hard. "But--but--" he faltered ¹, "there ain't never been any found around here. The nearest fields are hundreds of miles away, ain't they?", ,Stratton dropped the lump of sand. A number of particles still clung to his palm, and over the skin there spread an oily, slightly iridescent ² film. His manner had suddenly grown composed, though his eyes still shone with suppressed excitement., ,"Just the same, it's--oil!" he returned quietly. "There's no doubt at all about it. Look at the ground there.", , ,"By golly!" he cried excitedly. "You mean to say the whole pasture's full of it?", ,"Not likely, but it looks to me as if there was a-plenty. There were traces back there where we stopped, and there's no telling how many more--", ,"Er - but he has such a longhead!" the man faltered. 他不好意思似的嚅嗫着：“这孩子脑袋真长。”,The iridescent bubbles were beautiful.这些闪着彩虹般颜色的大气泡很美 。