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Title: A night and a day : also Apple-tree court, and The worth of a baby
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
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Publisher: New York : American tract society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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d I mso proud of thee! Come back, Simeon; comehome to thy mother ! I m bound to go, said Reuben, stepping onto the truck, which hung over the shaft, while oneof the men ran to the engine-house to lower it.for a few seconds he stood there, looking roundhim on the pleasant, sunny day, and on his oldfriends and neighbors gathered about him. Abbyhad fallen on the ground, and was hiding her facefrom the light; and his mother was on her knees,torn between the dread of letting him go and thehope that he might save Simeon. Old Lijahs wifewas crying, and blessing him amid her sobs ; whilehis comrades were crowding eagerly round to shakehands with him, and bid him God speed. But itwas all over in a few moments; and as the chaingrated and creaked over the windlass, he glancedabout him for the last time. Take care of them, he shouted, as he felthimself passing out of their sight; and a faint,broken cheer answered him. For a little while hecould still see a cluster of friendly, anxious faces look-
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A NIGHT AND A DA K 23 ing after him. God bless you ! he called to them.He could hear them yet when he reached the bot-tom of the shaft, though the round opening abovehim was but as a very little ring of light in themidst of deep darkness. All right! I 11 be back in an hour, pleaseGod ! he shouted again, as he looked up to thesmall, bright spot overhead. Then he plunged intoone of the yawning caverns that opened before him. 24 A NIGHT AND A DAY. CHAPTER III. The pit was more familiar to Reuben Hazel-dine than the woods and lanes of the country overground. It was a very ancient one; how long ithad been worked nobody could tell, but for genera-tions back there had been a small though regularoutput of coal, which had been just worth diggingfor, along the winding and narrow veins of themineral. There had been no more money spentupon it than the absolutely necessary outlay; andmost of the old disused footways had been allowedto sink in, making little dells and dimples in thewoods overhead,

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