The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-12-03
THE MINER.
SKETCHES FROM THE COAL MINE
SECOND PART.
The PETS OF No. THREE BREAST.

You are saluted with this bit Of Dennis
,loquence the moment you enter No. 8.
You be too bad, you be-" you bear
chopped out Of Toe mouth Of a Welshman,
like dotted notes from the fiddle Of MAS
ter, and in a manner remOnstratingly, to
tbc yindictyeness Of the first speaker
Faith, and it's not half bad enough flat
/ am; for its cut up they ought to be into
Dutch sausages, that those who take their
paIt should be made to ate"
'You be throwing insinuations at me, be
YOU responds the Welshman with mach
anger il Bis tone, accompanied by gesture
that almost amounts 70 a threat It gave a
beware cast 70 the expression
AM, my boy, it's Just as little Dennis
cares about the insnuation as be does about
the man who takes it home; for tell you
them Scranton men are nothing but q rty
hlacklegs, and those who take their part
are just as bad and may the devif fly
away wild them all on the same string
But man dear, the Scranton wax a
union man before Schuylkill ever was
union man, you see says Tahey, cooling
down suddenly.
"Shure, an they were that: united by
the holy,tJ oppose any one else that went to
look for Job at Scranton, without,in fRth,
the stranger happened 70 have dis ant
cousin N the works OF was from the .me
part Of the ould country as the boss. By
the powers, it was like putting ones aead
into North Wales going down one of fhem
Scranton shafts
You must ave been there to find olt 50
much about them.
And that | was, faith, ID the suspeD sion,
when | thought how a little work some
where would fill up the empty cupboard.
So | went to the boss at one of the Serb htOn
-hatts,one foine mornin, and good moinin
sir, says I. Mornin says be with erum-
HE. An PLACE Gan you give NE a mall
lob @ work 4 ave got no work says
he. Wora worra =" says 'whaS shall
I do Kate and the childor arc dy.l' for
morael to ale You can 20 to thd pres
ident Of the strict, says be, 'and see if
he will help you never take on work-ic-
men till they bc recommended by the Union.
If ! do %, they strike AN who presi-
dent, i you PLACE, sir, says l. 'Githth-
Griffith BE- president, says be FSo, be
IaberS, away goes an foinds the pre- sident,
Griffith, Just as be was coming homg from
the moines, an that was at noine OF ock O.
the mornin' Good mornin', says / Good
mornin' be to you. An could y9u bell
he 70 a JOB q work ,su, says l. HA turned
biz face 70 moline and looked up at Ire fol
Il III held out ny arum be coua have
walked through under it widout tolGhing q
biz On it what BE- you? says be-. It's a
miner that | am, sir, says !. 'J#do wan
a labOrer myself, says he and if you
will come to the mines tomorrow morning
| viii give YOU wuric Thank YOU, sir,
says !. Good morning, says BE-, a;ld walk
ed Of bis way Good mornin, Air. say
Land walked off ny way to hunt for board
An BY ny faith then, but this was the dev
lis OVID job. ! went to half a dozsn board
ing houses and before they Woult answe
me a word, they demanded to ksow wba
countryman | was An by faith, my boy
it's Dennis Murphy hat II niver deny bi
country OF bis creed! Well, there wa
no room for Dennis 70 lay bis heAd dow
or any Of their feather pillows, o. sthra,
holsters may be. But, at last, | came TO
widow woman's, who kept few bOardeTi
and says / Good evenin ma am Cor it wa
late It was gettin) and shure its hungr
that | am and wet for it bad been the dey
Il's own thunder shower, and dhry fo
want Of coed dhrink She locked U
at me, too; for the devil nicer Btte w
man you ever saw, and by the eyeE she FL
ed on me from head to foot, l kneY I'D r.
ceive favorable answer Come .In,' say
she, and IN ! went and sat down OR chat
she banded me, and then she brought me
drink, Of what do you think now, just tr
70 guess K
Here, Mr.. Editor, the WclshmaE guesse
all the drinks his chopped English is mas
ter OF, till at last Dennis comes to- bis relic
by saying:
"Niver q one o them: what use but
strong drink " mood cowld spriGg water
Taft looked harL at Dennis, bu; be hard
" seemed to appreciate the joke.
But that was nothing 70 what she iii
next, continued Dennis.
What hur do next asks Taft
"Sbe brought some bread anil cheese
but what ID the worruld Do YOU think sh
fetched me to cut il wil ="
Taft quickly replied why why
knife n
AN faith that's a good guess, tor tia
was the very thing she brought to cut
with 1t was basbful that ! was, 20 it wa
some time before asked bOarsiin' Of her
thinkin' she'd may be deny ma afther all
ike the rest Of them; but whet | did ask
says she, MY hinny II try to gut tho u
among the lads An faith, she was a
2ood As ber word, and can tel you X
good hoardin', an the lads proged to b,
foine fellows every an o. thiE So tn,
next morrin' | went to work, and Griffith
took me 70 the breast ! was ts work il
There i was as fat a. a table Nov
mind you, says be, when you lead six va
CONS you cau come home By yourself d
matter if so be you load them BY twelv,
o'clock you can come home An tina
J will says | but sbure an where's tbt
coal that have 70 load up F" Why, her,
X The coal you must load Up, says Griffith
Griffith, president Of the district, a. b,
pointed to the face Of the hteast b,
the holy, and must wait till you mine !
before can load it, says /. No, shur,
you must mine it yourself, you; see, and
WITT paw you days woric for TX wagons
aud fifty cents for each hole you lire besides
That y fljr. Now Dennis Marphy, say,
I 70 myself, you're il a divil Of a fix; bu
faith an yonder' Kate and the .ohilder wild
out food almost so Dennis, lily boy, yot
must do the best you can so 1t it went
while his honor, the President, went of
home with BIN little carcase started t.