With such as these--the shy, the proud, the intelligent and uncomplaining endurers--hunger is not the hardest thing that befalls:- "When the mind's free, The body's delicate; the tempest in their minds Doth from their senses take all else, Save what beats there." People of this temper are more numerous amongst our working population than the world believes, because they are exactly of the kind least likely to be heard of.

They will fight their share of the battle of this time out as nobly as they have begun it; and it will be an ill thing for the land that owns them if full justice is not done to their worth, both now and hereafter.
In the same street where the old weaver lived, we called upon a collier's family--a family of ten in number.

The colliers of Wigan have been suffering a good deal lately, among the rest of the community, from shortness of labour.

It was dinner-time when we entered the house, and the children were all swarming about the little place clamouring for their noontide meal.

With such a rough young brood, I do not wonder that the house was not so tidy as some that I had seen.