. Book of the Royal blue . f it wasbeing taken, was a small company ofminers waiting for empty cars to be carriedin for them to fill. The talk was of thework in winter. When I took off mytrousers at night and threw them in thecorner, said one, it was like throwingdown a log, so full were they of ice. Ihave worked all day, stated another,knee-deep in water. Gum-boots are nouse, because they are soon destroyed by theacids in the coal. So the warmth thatthey who sit by heated grates or roaringfurnaces receive is purchased by the oppo-site experience of the men who toil underthe ground to bring on
. Book of the Royal blue . f it wasbeing taken, was a small company ofminers waiting for empty cars to be carriedin for them to fill. The talk was of thework in winter. When I took off mytrousers at night and threw them in thecorner, said one, it was like throwingdown a log, so full were they of ice. Ihave worked all day, stated another,knee-deep in water. Gum-boots are nouse, because they are soon destroyed by theacids in the coal. So the warmth thatthey who sit by heated grates or roaringfurnaces receive is purchased by the oppo-site experience of the men who toil underthe ground to bring one element of thebenefits of civilization to their brother toilers, however, are like their fel-lows of the race to which they belong,cheerful under difficulties, patient in labor,brave in meeting the responsibilities of anexistence to which they have been beckonedby that hand which formed the eternal hillsthat they are exploiting, and they are theonly ones of His creatures who are capableof this vast
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