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Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine

CHAPTER XIII
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Let's yer what he's for!" 'Well,' said I, 'come on, an' you shall yer,' for aw felt cawmer just then, than I did when it were o'er.

There they were, gethered reawnd me in a minute,--th' whole lot,--I were fair hemmed in.

But I geet atop ov a bit ov a knowe, an' towd 'em a fair tale,-- what I wanted, an' what I would have, an' I put it to 'em whether they didn't consider it reet.

An' I believe they see'd th' thing in a reet leet, but they said nought about it, but went back to their wark, lookin' sulky.

But I've had very little bother with 'em sin'.
I never see'd a lot o' chaps so altered sin' th' last February, as they are.


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