Aw never trouble't noather teawn nor country i' my life, an' aw hope aw never shall for the bit o' time aw have to do on." She said that the Board of Guardians had allowed the family 10s.

a week for the two first weeks of the wife's confinement, but now their income amounted to a little less than one shilling a head per week.
Leaving this house, we turned round the corner into St Mary's Street North.

Here we found a clean-looking young working man standing shivering by a cottage door, with his hands in his pockets.

He was dressed in well-mended fustian, and he had a cloth cap on his head.
His face had a healthy hunger-nipt look.

"Hollo," said my friend, "I thought you was working on the moor." "Ay," replied the young man, "Aw have bin, but we'n bin rain't off this afternoon." "Is there nobody in ?" said my friend.