They are a nation that has never been whipped.

Every people has its characteristics.

"You can't beat the Irish" is one slogan, "You can't kill a Swede" is another, and "You can't crowd out a Welshman" is a motto among the mill people.
I didn't want to leave Wales when my parents were emigrating.

Though I was not quite eight years old I decided I would let them go without me.
The last act of my mother was to reach under the bed, take hold of my heels and drag me out of the house feet first.

I tried to hang on to the cracks in the floor, and tore off a few splinters to remember the old homestead by.