At the end where the Morels lived there were not many young things.

So the few were more united.

Boys and girls played together, the girls joining in the fights and the rough games, the boys taking part in the dancing games and rings and make-belief of the girls.
Annie and Paul and Arthur loved the winter evenings, when it was not wet.

They stayed indoors till the colliers were all gone home, till it was thick dark, and the street would be deserted.

Then they tied their scarves round their necks, for they scorned overcoats, as all the colliers' children did, and went out.