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The sick kids finally crawled 
out & gave us hail Columbia 
for cooking so much Cream 
of Wheat.   
After a great deal of hot 
air we got the canoes 
loaded and started. We 
paddled till half past 
eleven, when we went 
ashore and visited a 
coal mine. We went down 
the shaft which was ninety 
feet deep, to us it seemed 
about nine hundred. 
Gee but it was a dirty, wet, 
dark hole we struck.

It all happened so suddenly