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"A ground-squirrel, more likely," remarked Mr. Appel. Mr. Stott smiled at him: "Squee-rrel, if you will allow me to again correct you." "I guess I can't help myself," replied Mr. Appel, drily. Mr. Stott shrugged a shoulder and his tolerant look said plainly that, after all, one should not expect too much of a man who had begun life as a "breaker-boy."
Finally, with a good deal of laughter and cheering, the meeting voted to add Mary Burke to this committee. It was a new thing to have a woman in such a role, but Mary was the daughter of a miner and the sister of a breaker-boy, and had as good a right to speak as any one in North Valley. Hal read the document which had been prepared the night before.
Beware of any one who offers you a job. How do you know that this woman does not want to make you work as a breaker-boy in a coal mine or murder you to get your teeth? If you accept work of any kind without permission of our association you will be arrested by one of our agents." "But what am I to do?" asked Elsie. "I have no home or money. I must do something.
Appel, but not nearly so much as I shall enjoy the relief from listening to the story of the way you got your start as a 'breaker-boy' in the coal region." He bowed with the irony of Mephistopheles to Mrs.
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