UNSEEN WHISTLERS.
Mr Kellogg Durlund, author of "Among the Fife Miners," remarks on the pleaaintneao of hearing singing or whistling in a mine by men you cannot see as they peg away at their work: —" One morning as I was" making my way along a lengthy level whistling to myself" tho refrain of ' Sweet Genevieve,' someone so far ahead that I could not catch the faintest gleam of the lamp that I knew full well he must have, caught up the melody, and out of the lugubrious gloom came the faint, silvery echo, like sounds sent back by some eerie spirit of the earth's depths. While singing is so common a feature, a ringing laugh is seldom heard, probably because conversation generally takes a serious turn."
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11877, 26 April 1904, Page 7
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126UNSEEN WHISTLERS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11877, 26 April 1904, Page 7
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