The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1924-11-13
THE FINS WERE TWINS
BY G. RAY MILLS
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Near where the Kemi swiftly flows,
From Laplands icy heights and Fnlands melting SHOWS
In piney forest land o every daTkened green,
Where by the and salmon nets are seem
milk the and men all WELD the axe
Where eyes palest blue and hair Of ightest lax
Two brothers there born twins they did adorn
The selame them BOTH from infancy first morn~
Abel was the name Of one and AxeIo Of the other,
Though hard it to tell apart either from his brother
For and hearty boys with faces like the moon
thved like garden Weeds IN sunny month o. june
On bater-nilk clabber, and salty salmon red,
Renders they both did eat and fn flakes OF bread
Which there they bake in flat round cake,
With inch hole in center, for stringing on stake
Now when to mans estate at age Of weny-one,
Each STRIPPING grows they make him shoulder gum
And draft n the army, and he recruit,
Must learn to drill march, and quick salute
So our ne Abel in time called to give
Three years army training and in the barracks live,
To wear wooden smocks and Of plush black,
baggy their boots and ramods down their backs
But even though in bawoods had dwe young
That cheer for either Of the twins
So they iourneyed through darkness the and
the winters GOODNESS and to Swedish side did go
Then to Baltic port, and exc the
They the land which free
And the start they'd always been together,
they cung through farest foul weather.
And drifting DER this they place place.
From rolling camps and haryests annual trace
wheat fields in the middle states to copper range in North
From the mines Michigan fishers FORTH
They together in Butes deepest mines,
shoyd where the shelters stacks with fumes the thin air
Later on they learned in many a deep black hole,
dangers and the TOLL of digging out the coa.
time of which speak, in winter cold and bleak,
The twins had been strike, for weary week,
And the again. working might and MAN,
The fuelf % abate and on the shortage gain
had told them often to miss trip,
Though little he had, for make slip
Was part Of their religion, if such Il ey ever knew,
loaded when for work the whistles blew
One day the haulage men to the record tried
The nppers flashed, from "parngs" to inside
Distributing the emptes and pckin the loads,
AS rapidly possible along the haulage roads,
every they outside with rolling, rafting flock
mi heavy laden they took from off the block,
Another loaded where worked the Finnish twins,
Though missed that day. twas usual with ne rims
When shift nearly DONE motor trips last run,
AT zero hour in mine, the blasting begun.
The nipper pull under last loads Wheel
did TOLL with tools Of sharpened Steel
beside the Of these two men,
Who asked and help to get the other tWn
The npper called the motor-man the they
And near mbered place found the body Of
All stiff and stark in dark since dead
Law Axel or was it Abel manged rock-crushed head
And Abel or was it Axe "Ay yoo poot in de gob
So Ay been hole load the with coal and vcrn at
yob
Ven first at the place early dis morning.
rock fell down. crushed his without the least Of warn
ing,
Awe had to do his andt dis makes lots Of trouble
Avn have to ckweght dat Awe yoo worked
double"