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Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine

CHAPTER XXII
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But one doesn't know wheer to go these times; an' one doesn't like to go a-beggin' among folk at they known.

Well, when we coom to Gorton we geet twopence-hawpenny theer; an' that wur o'.

Neaw, there's plenty moor beggin' besides us.

Well, at after that twopence-hawpenny, we geet twopence moor, an' that's o' at we'n getten.

But, eh, lasses, when aw coom to do it, aw hadn't th' heart to as for nought; aw hadn't for sure.


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