The old woman said, "Aw'm always forced to keep one o'th lasses a-whoam, for aw connot do a hond's turn." The children had been brought up to factory labour; but both they and their father had been out of work nearly twelve months.

During that time the family had received relief tickets, amounting to the value of four shillings a week.

Speaking of the old man, the mother said, "Peter has just getten a bit o' wark again, thank God.

He's hardly fit for it; but he'll do it as lung as he can keep ov his feet.".