"Hauve-past ten, he says," replied the other.

"Eh; it's warm!" said the tired lad, lying down upon his barrow again.

One thing I noticed amongst these men, with very rare exceptions, their apparel, however poor, evinced that wholesome English love of order and cleanliness which generally indicates something of self-respect in the wearer--especially among poor folk.

There is something touching in the whiteness of a well- worn shirt, and the careful patches of a poor man's old fustian coat.
As I lounged about amongst the men, a mild-eyed policeman came up, and offered to conduct me to Jackson, the labour-master, who had gone down to the other end of the moor, to look after the men at work at the great sewer--a wet clay cutting--the heaviest bit of work on the ground.

We passed some busy brickmakers, all plastered and splashed with wet clay -- of the earth, earthy.