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356 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
gathered at the mouth of the mine. As they
clambered down, they cried: “ Lord and God, have mercy,
have mercy, have mercy!”
Every journey the little wagons made, their song
grew more feeble. They groaned and cried as they
crawled up the paths of the mine.
The little wagons were bathed in perspiration;
the baskets of ore ground holes in their shoulders.
As they went up and down they sang: —
“ Seven more trips without pause for breath,
The pain of living is worse than death,”
Margherita Cornado had suffered for those poor
children all her own childhood. And because she
was always thinking of their hardships, people
believed that she would be a saint.
Neither did she forget them as she grew older.
As soon as she was grown, she went to Grotte,
where most of the mines are, and when the little
wagons came out into the daylight, she was waiting
for them by the shaft with fresh, clean water. She
wiped the perspiration from their faces, and she
dressed the wounds on their shoulders. It was not
much that she could do for them, but soon the little
wagons felt that they could not go on with their
work any day that Margherita Cornado did not come
and comfort them.
But unfortunately for the little wagons, Margherita
was very beautiful. One day one of the
mining-engineers happened to see her as she was relieving
the children, and instantly fell very much in love
with her.
A few weeks after, Margherita Cornado stopped
coming to the Grotte mines. She sat at home
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