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something for it," and mostly keep on taking 

 something more for whatever *'it" maybe till 

 ^* All aboard" is the order. Why is it that the 

 coal industry goes with taste for high-toned out- 

 ward adornment ? I make no intentional 

 reference here to red hair, which is a presum- 

 ably natural development where coalfields lie, 

 but have in mind that all-the-world-over miners' 

 taste for hues, like the ''just plain red and yaller, 

 hinny," which the collier's wife called for when 

 she wanted something quiet in neckties for her 

 Geordie. Is it that so much of their lives is spent 

 underground, and under grime, that when on the 

 top the pit lads make the most of associating 

 themselves with brightness ? 



