A few minutes' slow walk brought us to the spot, where some twenty of the hardier sort of operatives were at work in a damp clay cutting.

"This is heavy work for sich chaps as these," said Jackson; "but I let 'em work bi'th lump here.

I give'em so much clay apiece to shift, and they can begin when they like, an' drop it th' same.

Th' men seem satisfied wi' that arrangement, an' they done wonders, considerin' th' nature o'th job.

There's many o'th men that come on to this moor are badly off for suitable things for their feet.