Pikemen
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Behind the
pikemen
nearly three metres of the seam were clear, and they had not yet taken the precaution of supporting the rock, having grown careless of danger and miserly of their time.
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He was working in a set; there were four
pikemen
associated in his cutting, himself, Zacharie, Levaque, and Chaval.
Chapter 4THE four
pikemen
had spread themselves one above the other over the whole face of the cutting.
When these fragments, retained by the plank, had collected round them, the
pikemen
disappeared, buried in the narrow cleft.
In the afternoon the workers in the earth cutting took the rubbish left at the bottom of the gallery by the pikemen, and cleared out the exhausted section of the seam, in which they destroyed the wood, being only careful about the lower and upper roads for the haulage.
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