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He was forced to do his work with a 49-pound hammer in that funnel-shaped pit, at a hundred degrees in the shade if he could find any shade. One day he told the guard he was sick, and could not work any longer. The guard shifted the quid in his mouth and remarked that he ought to have said so that morning. But the man meant what he said, and proved it by dying a day or two later.
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