Chapter
1 I | horny hand of the oldest miner, whose eyes were dim with
2 I | knew Ford to be a clever miner, peculiarly endowed with
3 II | county of Stirling. The old miner had evidently not written
4 II | sir,” replied the young miner, cap in hand. “You have
5 II | Starr,” answered the young miner.~“Very well,” said Starr,
6 II | Starr,” replied the young miner, “for we love one another,
7 III | nevertheless the young miner was not long in acquiring
8 III | stopped also. The young miner waited in silence. He felt
9 III | measured step habitual to the miner. They were all still in
10 III | say,” answered the young miner.~“Is it not your father?”~“
11 III | to the ears of the young miner.~“The Hundred Pipers!” cried
12 III | formerly lighted either by the miner’s lamp or by the electric
13 III | behind us,” replied the young miner, listening more attentively.
14 IV | period of the working. His miner’s instinct assisted him
15 IV | excellence the type of a miner whose whole existence is
16 IV | necessary, have resumed the miner’s pick, and with his still
17 IV | Starr. He is as hungry as a miner, and he shall see that our
18 IV | ground. He hasn’t the true miner’s blood in his veins. Sit
19 IV | who,” exclaimed the old miner, “who could have possibly
20 IV | nothing,” returned the old miner, “but there’s no hurry about
21 IV | propose next to put me in a miner’s dress?”~“Not just yet,
22 V | The light from the young miner’s lamp, thrown on the wall,
23 V | distant reports, as if some miner had exploded a charge of
24 VI | carburetted hydrogen?”~“An old miner could not be deceived,”
25 VI | respiration impossible. The miner could not live in a place
26 VI | pondered over all that the old miner had told him, and mentally
27 VI | are!” exclaimed the old miner. “At last, thank Heaven!
28 VI | experiment, just as the old miner had done before.~What troubled
29 VI | No longer!” cried the old miner—and, pressing his lips tight
30 VI | the escape of gas.~The old miner’s arm trembled whilst he
31 VI | true?” exclaimed the old miner.~“Look, father!” Harry was
32 VII | the end of it!”~The old miner was overflowing with joy.
33 VII | Harry’s feet? Had the young miner fallen into some crevice?
34 VIII| to the instinct of an old miner! It has never deceived me!”~“
35 VIII| All listened, as the young miner was doing. His ears, which
36 VIII| Yes,” answered the young miner.~“Well! have you not found
37 XIII| just the very wife for a miner. She is an orphan—so am
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