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Updated: May 13, 2025

They hed been blastin' Elder Payson's rock, half-way deown the new well, an' the mine hedn't worked, an' 'Miah'd gone deown ter see w'at wuz in it; an' jest ez he got up ag'in, off it went, an' here he wuz 'ith a great splinter in his chist, ef the rest uv it wuz him.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861