（解説文要約）
坑内に持ち込んだ弁当をネズミに食べられることがありました。
作兵衛翁はこれを｢チュウ害｣と呼んでいます。
食べられないように柱などに下げていても、風呂敷を破り食い荒らします。
ネズミにやられると午後は仕事にならなかったようです。
弁当箱は竹製で、底はスギ板。「クラガイ」とか「ガガ」と呼ばれていました。

 

 

 

As miners brought their lunch boxes to work with them underground, their lunch was sometimes eaten up by mice.
Even though they took precautions, such as keeping their lunch box hanging from pillars off the ground,

mice often found a way to chew through the cloth they used to hang the lunch box and stoletheir food.
When this happened, miners found it difficult towork in the afternoon as they were weak on an empty stomach.
Lunch boxes were called KuragaiorGaga. The base of the lunch box was made of bamboo and the bottom made of cedar board.