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strange old towers were everywhere, as in a fairy
world.
As Margherita Cornado grew up, she used to
spend most of her days there ; but she never looked
out over the dazzling landscape. She was occupied
with other things.
Her father used to tell her of the life in the
sulphur mines at Grotte, where he had worked.
While Margherita Cornado sat on the airy terrace,
she thought that she was incessantly walking about
the dark mine veins, and finding her way through
dim shafts.
She could not help thinking of all the misery that
existed in the mines; especially she thought of the
children, who carried the ore up to the surface.
“ The little wagons,” they called them. That
expression never left her mind. Poor, poor little
wagons, the little mine-wagons!
They came in the morning, and each followed a
miner down into the mine. As soon as he had dug
out enough ore, he loaded the mine-wagon with a
basket of it, and then the latter began to climb.
Several of them met on the way, so that there was
a long procession. And they began to sing: —
14 One journey made in struggling and pain,
Nineteen times to be travelled again.”
When they finally reached the light of day, they
emptied their baskets of ore and threw themselves
on the ground to rest a moment. Most of them
dragged themselves over to the sulphurous pools
near the shaft of the mine and drank the pestiferous
water.
But they soon had to go down again, and they
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