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"Ah, yes!" replied the doctor, drawing the letter from his pocket. He was very friendly, affable, busy, kind. He would come to Sheffield the next day. "What is your father?" he asked. "He is a coal-miner," replied Paul. "Not very well off, I suppose?" "This I see after this," said Paul. "And you?" smiled the doctor. "I am a clerk in Jordan's Appliance Factory." The doctor smiled at him.
Crew Solomon, coal-miner, Bitton, Gloucestershire. Cunningham B. B., cordwainer, St. Mary Redcliff. Coddington Richard, corkcutter, Bath. Clark John, toymaker, St. Philip. Dolman Charles, brightsmith, Christ Church. Duffett John, brushmaker, St. Philip. Daniel Samuel, barber-surgeon, St. Philip. Duffy Jonathan, labourer, St. Paul. Davis James, miller, St. George. Daniel Thomas, painter, St. James.
"They did it there, and more than three hundred people lost their lives." He went on to tell that dreadful story, known to every coal-miner. They had sealed the mine, while women fainted and men tore their clothes in frenzy some going insane. They had kept it sealed for two weeks, and when they opened it, there were twenty-one men still alive!
One of the earliest was that of hoisting sails upon the waggons, and driving them along the waggon-way, as a ship is driven through the water by the wind. This method seems to have been employed by Sir Humphrey Mackworth, an ingenious coal-miner at Neath in Glamorganshire, about the end of the seventeenth century.
'I saw that God loves me! says Duncan Matheson. 'I thought that "whosoever" meant "me" says Weaver. 'I saw that "whosoever" meant "me," says Matheson. 'The happiness I then enjoyed I cannot describe, says our English coal-miner. 'I could not contain myself for gladness, says our Scottish stonemason. We may dismiss the evangelists with that, and turn to the missionaries.
They soon lose ambition to do anything else than to continue as a coal-miner. In those days, and later as a young man, I used to try to picture in my imagination the feelings and ambitions of a white boy with absolutely no limit placed upon his aspirations and activities.
The combatants were announced as Pig Flanagan and Tom Evans, the Welsh coal-miner. It seemed to Morris that he had seen Evans somewhere before, but as this was his initiation into the realms of pugilism he concluded that it was merely a chance resemblance and dismissed the matter from his mind.
Save when they were the subject of conversation, he was as out of his element as a coal-miner at the ballet. "We should explain the reason for this this rather abrupt call." He fingered his brief-case, which he still clutched, nervously. "Down to business already." Holmes seated himself on the arm of Ricky's chair. "Very well, out with it."
The days I managed to get through by working hard and making observations on the American language. In this I had a volunteer assistant in Julia, the pretty, barefooted daughter of a coal-miner, who hung around and took an interest in what was going on. But she disappeared after I had asked her to explain what setting one's cap for any one meant.
The coal-miner was, however, still a creation of the future, and even as peat is collected in Ireland at the present day for fuel, without the laborious process of mining for it, so those people living in coal-bearing districts found their needs satisfied by the quantity of coal, small as it was, which appeared ready to hand on the sides of the carboniferous mountains.
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