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On the morning following the test made upon the bit of gold quartz that Purdick had picked up, Larry, who had the watch from three o'clock to daybreak, found himself getting so sleepy in the final hour of his watch that he had to get up and stir around to keep awake.
Renewing the camp-fire so that there might be a good bed of coals for the breakfast cooking, he contrived to kill time until it was light enough to enable him to see the surrounding objects. Then, as Dick and little Purdick were still sleeping soundly, he picked up the hammer they used for breaking samples and started out for an early-morning walk, meaning to have a look at a curious rock and earth deposit he had come upon the evening before, after it was too near dark to examine it closely.