Don't thou get angry for nothing; thou hast done a man's work to-day, at all events.

Now come and bear a hand.

T'owd 'ooman will mind the lad.' "We went back to the pit's mouth; the men were tearing round the whim faster than horses would a' done it.

And first amongst 'em all was old Mrs.Cobley, wi' her long grey hair down her back, doing the work o' three men; for her two boys were down still, and I knew for one that they were not with us at the bottom; but when the basket came up with the last, and her two boys missing, she went across to the master, and asked him what he was going to do, as quiet as possible.
"He said he was going to ask some men to go down, and my father volunteered to go at once, and eight more went with him.

They were soon up again, and reported that all the mine was full of smoke, and no one had dared leave the shaft bottom fifty yards.
"'It's clear enough, the mine's fired, sir,' said my father to the owner.