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Curdie spent many nights in the mine. His father and he had taken Mrs. Peterson into the secret, for they knew mother could hold her tongue, which was more than could be said of all the miners' wives.
But Curdie did not tell her that every night he spent in the mine, part of it went in earning a new red petticoat for her.