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their men? Little Unda, her cloth drenched with the rain, stood at the
clear of the mouth, and her only answer was the murmur of the flood
minute,' shouted the Manager.
But he need not have troubled; Unda was afraid of Death. She wanted
could wade into it. There was a lull in the water.html">water.html">water.html">water, and the whirlpool
to-morrow!' said the Manager.
'There's some chance yet of running a temporary dam.html">dam.html">dam across that water.
Make them work now if they never worked before. Hi! you gangers, make
towards the water with promises of overtime. The dam-making began, and
come for the pumps.html">pumps.html">pumps. There was no fresh inrush into the mine. The tall,
guttered and shrieked as the first water poured out of the pipe.
'We must run her all to-night,' said the Manager wearily, 'but there's
are proud of your engines, show me what they can do now.'
Gur Sahai grinned and nodded, with his right hand upon the lever and
could keep that up till the dawn. Were the Company's pumps to be beaten
And the pumps sobbed and panted: 'Never, never!' The Manager sat in
pump-boiler fire, and, in the dreary dusk, he saw the crowds on the
'em that we haven't tried to drown their mates on purpose. Oh, for a
astounding news, and the foremen could not hold their gangs together.
Janki, and ten basket-women, walked up to report themselves, and pretty
give me pension?'
The simple pit-folk shouted and leaped and went back to the dam,
the power of the Company whose salt they ate, none of them could. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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