TWELVE OUT. The Country Pundit gets the words right.

Any man willing to go into the bowels of the earth in search of black diamonds gets my hat tipped to him. Prayers have been answered, and thanks will be offered. I hope that the family of the deceased supervisor will be able to pull through this obviously very difficult time.

Amen.

SECOND SECTION. This morning's news is very different. The families of the twelve dead miners had their hopes raised, then dashed, on an erroneous early report.