Joseph
ascertained that the remaining articles were a gold hilt and chain, and a gold
ball with two pointers. The hilt and chain had once been part of a sword of
unusual size; but the blade had rusted away and become useless. Joseph then
turned the rock back, took the article in the pillow case, and returned to the
wagon; . . . (Fayette Lapham, "The Mormons,” Historical
Magazine 7 [May 1870]: 307)