The Boy with the U. S. Miners
Description:... "[...] "Long afore I first went down into a coal mine, I knew about the knockers, and where they come from. Dad told me that all the coal-seams o' the world were forests, once. Long afore Noah an' the Flood. He'd seen ferns an' leaves o' trees turned into coal. One time, when digging out a seam, he'd come across the trunk of a tree standin' upright in the coal, with the roots still in the under clay." "That's right enough," agreed Clem, "but the coal-forests were a good many million years older than Noah!"[...]".
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