The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-10-22

SIX lncneS more powder lie, week; 1t wad
ha saved a this"
With these few words Jack takes sharI
pick and advances 4 re corner Of tht
breast, directly over the man-way by which
you and that good Genie found ingress, ant
plies it skillfully and diligently for a con
siderable length of time. You hear the Goa
rafting down the man-way as it flies from
the point of the pick, and the dust get.
thicker in the air and settles all over both
you and those two pets, until you are AZ
black as you can well be made. The good
Genie, however, is not affected by the ebal
dust, and he stands silently gazing at those
pets Jack working on one side of the
breast, and Gcordy working on the other
pet Jack cutting hole in the wall side, pet
Gcordy Strengthening up the wall side
above bis timber work. in order to insert
another juglar and length Of planking.
What is that You be. an awful racket
seventy yards below you; i is like some
thing caying in Geordy stops working
and listens, while tho other precious pet
stays hewing coal and bcgins-not to listen
as be ought to do perhaps, when he hears such
a noise-but % swear like a teamster. Jack
has been working hard and is highly heated
and no doubt in this state is cast excited ;
50 this much at least may 10 said III vindi-
cation of Jack profanity. You are GER
tainly quite sorry that Jack should he so
proflnc; hut my dear Mr.. Editor Of the
DaH --. only Put yourself in his
place" You may sec that both bis nds
are bleeding from the splinters Q. 4rarp
coal that have been flying from the pick, and
On ,he end IL that precious pets nose you
see a red Dot which has just Oecn stamped
there hy sharp splinter that stabbed il to
the very bone Wen request you to cx-
cusc the pet for using Profane language!
SAY Gcorly, them --rs are loading
coal out Of our schu,cs. Did thc tell
them Z"
"No, Jack, II didn't tell them. Look out
the battery is going to start :" Saying this
in a hurried manner. Geordy, the pet, step.
on to the juglar, and Jack the other pei
quickly follows the example Of his comrade
In the meantime, Mr. Elitor, you fee
the loose coal trcmblo beneath your feet fol
the space Of a second or two, and then you
hear 4 roar that is ~ ough to deafen YOU
and you feel yourself dropping through
space You fancy you drop tathoms before
you stop; hut when that cloud Of black
coal dust settles 50 that you may see, you
find you have only fallen three feet You
see pet Gcordy in a black cloud on one side
Of the breast coughing coal dust out of BIZ
throat, and Jack il On the other swearing
and complaining with all the energy be i
possessed Of.
"Now, Geordy, what dost tha think .
this? Is not this - of 20! l Wis!
that --- loader was here, Id pore bis ye,
off. %
Snow baud thy tongue, bunny. come.
from the cloud Of dust that still ponds il
the opposite corner; lust the thing W,
want, and i could not have happened at
better time"
What art talking about man." Jacl
says in tone Of veneration. Il can ma dC
another stroke o work till t place is fillec
up again ave now to stand On; the coal i.
all gone fra under my feet"
"Thoo'll ba plenty under thy feet JUS
moo, bunny" says the black cloud again
"that wings just on the point Of coming
away. Wait till the loose coal settles, anC
till we can hear MAR distinctly hoo that Goa
above thy heed : working Crawl int
the 'ole thoo's made and wait there: it.,
not safe to be under it WIN. tu,t .ua
is settling an making such a raca.,.
Jack crawls into bis hole, and looks out
and, Mr. Editor, did you not know that thu
pet belonged to the human race, you would
bc at loss to tell what sort of a black ami
NAL was kennelled il that hole.
In The meantime, how the cal grinds un.
der your feet, and what a noise it makes az
you feel it settling down. The noise ap-
pears to be all around you; you fancy the
plank work below you is breaking under
the strain imposed upon it. OF loose coal
under your feet, Mr.. Editor, there are about
Eve thousand tons, which these two precious
pets have cut at the rate of ter cnts pey
taH, You open your eyes my dear Mr. Ia
Iior, az this statement; but reckon up for
yourself; III furnish you with these data.
First, the breast, az you see, il Of an ave.
rare width # thirty feet, and a height OF
tnutl hv4.. iuc yield Of material is to
each lneal yard up the breast, about ninety
tons, allowing each cubic yard Of solid coal
to weigh one ton Now, Mr.. Editor, reckon
up the amount the pets will receive per ton
when tell you they are paid per lineal
yard, with the handsome sum Of nine dol
lars. Further, Mr.. Editor, can you be so
good as TO tell your obiging readers, and
the numerous correspondents who contribute
TO what they term ''your valuable paper
that if the 'rtole of these pets share we're
taken away from the cost Of production that
the market would not he conscious of the
reduction, and tell them that if GOOD Gov
Gcarys pets threw their services in as a
present, that the cost Of warm toes would
amount to The same thing then ~ it does
now. And let me add, that at the rate
stated, those precious pots-f they do not
meet with serious accidcnts-wll earn this
blessed month not less than hundred dol
lars each. And my dear Mr.. Editor. | see
by your countenancc that you 90 not be-
grudge it to them repeat, you do not be
grudge it to them after what the GOOD Genie
has shown you.
TO &c CONTINUED.