The Demise of the Idle Miner

Caught stealing, the idle miner is run out of town....

Caught stealing, the idle miner is run out of town....

He returns and stabs a man in an altercation...

He returns and stabs a man in an altercation...

Chained in a cell, the idle miner goes mad.

Chained in a cell, the idle miner goes mad.

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The different downward spirals of Tom Rakewell and the Idle Miner — prodigality and idleness — both lead to madness and incarceration.

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