10/17 "What's your son John getting, Mary ?" said the chairman to one old woman. "What's your son John getting ?" The old woman put her hand up to her ear, and answered, "Aw'm rayther deaf. What say'n yo ?" It turned out that her son was taken ill, and they were relieved. In the course of inquiries I found that the working people of Blackburn, as elsewhere in Lancashire, nickname their workshops as well as themselves. |