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39 OVERHEARD ON A BUS (Miner’s Wife) “He must go down in the mine— It’s all he knows; Certain as morning shine Then off he goes— Me standing there in the door A-seeing black And wondering evermore If he’ll come back. . . . Asked him, I have, to quit. I can beg and whine, But there’s nothing to do for it, It’s the mine, the mine— And him cast under its spell, So off he goes— Black as the mouth of hell, And when it blows— But I reckon they pay him well, And it’s all he knows. . . .” ...

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