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Maybe he's gone that way, Mrs Kempson," she said at last, and the thought seemed to bring some comfort to her. All appeared to agree with her except Dick. He was sure that David would not have gone away without, at all events, hinting his intention to him. The next day was Sunday, when no mines are worked.
But do let us get up, he may chance to come to in fresh air." As he spoke, the "skip," or "bowk," used for descending and ascending the shaft, reached the bottom, and Samuel Kempson and his boy were helped into it, and with some of the other men, began their ascent.
Often Samuel Kempson took charge of David, and carried him home with him; and Dick and David used to talk to each other and tell their griefs. David could read, and he would tell Dick all about what he had read on Sundays, and Dick at last said that he should like to read too, and David promised to teach him.
Eardley Childers, the father of the statesman of that name, has preserved a pleasant little memorial of the expedition. To Charles Smith Bird, Eardley Childers, Thos. B. Macaulay, William Clayton Walters, Geo. B. Paley, Robert Jarratt, Thos. Jarratt, Edwin Kempson, Ebenezer Ware, Wm. Cornwall, John Greenwood, J. Lloyd, and Jno. Wm. Gleadall, Esquires.
They, and others who had not joined the league, were threatened with severe punishment if they offered to work. Mrs Kempson and Mrs Adams and many other widows were in a sad way. They had saved but little money, so they soon spent all they had. Then they had to pawn some of their things, and then they had to go on credit, hoping that the lads would soon go to work again.
"I wonder now what he wants with us." "May be to teach us something we don't know," observed a second. "If he had come to tell us that our wages had risen, I'd have thanked him," said a third, with a sneer. "Maybe he is a parson of some sort," said Joseph Kempson. "I, for one, should like to hear him, and so would the boys in there.
The stranger had observed Kempson, and seeing something pleasant in his face, came up and addressed him, "Perhaps you will give me a chair," he said; "I should like to sit down and read to those who may wish to hear me." "Yes, sir, gladly," answered Kempson, bringing out a chair. "I have a sick boy within; he will hear all you say, as the window is open."
The miners always speak of being at play, when they are not at work. Just then a young man, well dressed in seafaring style, passed the window. "Do any people of the name of Kempson live hereabouts?" Dick heard him say. "Yes, sir," said Dick. "That's our name. What do you want?" The young man made no answer, but walked in and sat down on a chair Mrs Kempson offered him.
On hearing this, Samuel Kempson called all the men near to go to the assistance of David and Bill, while one ran to summon a deputy viewer to direct what was to be done to release Bill. As soon as they reached David, Samuel lifted him up in his arms, and hurried with him to the foot of the shaft, accompanied by Dick.
Are you willing to undertake the office?" "With all my heart," answered Stephen; "and I can answer for Willoughby, who will, I know, be delighted, for he has long wished to go to sea." "We will consider that matter settled, then," said Mr Kempson.
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