Mr Lea knows summat abeawt it--an' he stons theer.

Yo may have a like aim what we'n had to go through.

An' that wur when times were'n good; but then, everything o' that sort helps to poo folk deawn, yo known.
We'n had very hard deed, maister--aw consider we'n had as hard deed as anybody livin', takkin' o' together." This case was an instance of the peculiar troubles to which colliers and their families are liable; a little representative bit of life among the poor of Wigan.
From this place we went further up into Scholes, to a dirty square, called the "Coal Yard." Here we called at the house of Peter Y_, a man of fifty-one, and a weaver of a kind of stuff called, "broad cross-over," at which work he earned about six shillings a week, when in full employ.

His wife was a cripple, unable to help herself; and, therefore, necessarily a burden.

Their children were two girls, and one boy.