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“My mother had a job. First she had to get the water hot on the stove before we got home. Then she scrubbed us. Then the boys had to empty the water for her. While we were emptying the water and getting our clothes on, she got the supper. We sat down to a nice, big, hot supper. When a miner's family can't have a hot supper, you can know that things are pretty bad, because a miner works hard and, by George!, he needs his food at night and he needs a lot of it. It's got to be good. It's got to be hot. It's got to stay by him and stick to the ribs. That's what my mother did. Then she used to say her prayers with us and all that kind of thing.

“I'll tell you, Mr. Lyon, it was no joke being a miner, but it was good work. I loved it. I never liked any work so well.”

Mr. Lyon had said, “I don't see how a man ever brings himself to do that kind of work.”

John Mitchell said, “Well, you have to be born to it. You know that old poem about a sea captain who said to his little son who was frightened, ‘Isn't God upon the water just the same as on the land?' It's just the same way in the mine. Your father says to you, ‘Isn't God in the mine just the same as up above?' and so you go on down. You have