'They that's down are dead.

Better close it, sir.' "'What!' screamed old Mrs.Cobley, 'close the pit, ye dog, and my boys down there?
Ye wouldn't do such a thing, master dear ?' she continued; 'ye couldn't do it.' Many others were wild when they heard the thing proposed; but while they raved and argued, the pit began to send up a reek of smoke like the mouth of hell, and then the master gave orders to close the shaft, and a hundred women knew they were widows, and went weeping home.
"And Jack got well.

And after the old man died, we came out here.

Jack has gotten a public-house in Yass, and next year I shall go home and live with him.
"And that's the yarn about the fire at the Southstone Pit." We applauded it highly, and after a time began to talk about lying down, when on a sudden we heard a noise of horses' feet outside; then the door was opened, and in came a stranger.
He was a stranger to me, but not to my servant, who I could see recognized him, though he gave no sign of it in words.

I also stared at him, for he was the handsomest young man I had ever seen.
Handsome as an Apollo, beautiful as a leopard, but with such a peculiar style of beauty, that when you looked at him you instinctively felt at your side for a weapon of defence, for a more reckless, dangerous looking man I never yet set eyes on.