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He did not die because he was old. He died because he was having a competition against a man and his steam drill. The man challenged John Henry. So,one afternoon, they had the competition on a hill. At first,the steam drill was beating John Henry, but John Henry had lightning in his eyes.He started pounding those steel nails into that ground with his sledgehammer! He went 14 feet but the steam drill went only 9. Then it broke down. But right when John Henry broke through to daylight and stepped out, he died because his heart could not take the strain of that final task. They say, that if you go into that tunnel in West Virginia and listen closely,you can still hear his sledgehammer pounding those nails into the ground. He was born and died with a hammer in his hand.
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