2005-06-14
Carrying Coal to Newcastle...

To start the job, each man hired received a token with his number.  That number meant a set of clothes and a lamp.  He left his token before going down, and upon his return he checked in the lamp and the clothes.  If a token was missing at the end of the day, it meant some one had not returned from down below.

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