And there's no drinking, or dance halls.

And when the storm is over, the men untie their boats with a shout and the women gladly clean up the stour of the idle time." "Did you ever see a Yorkshire strike ?" "To be sure I hev; I had my say at the Hatton strike, I hed that! You were at college then, and your father was managing it, so we could not take the yacht out as expected, and I run down to Hatton to hev a talk with Stephen Hatton.

There was a big strike meeting that afternoon, and I went and listened to the men stating 'their grievances.' They talked a lot of nonsense, and I told them so.

'Get all you can rightly,' I said, 'but don't expect Stephen Hatton or any other cotton lord to run factories for fun.

They won't do it, and you wouldn't do it yersens!'" "Did they talk sensibly ?" "They talked foolishness and believed it, too.