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

CHAPTER IX
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As for us--my husband has four days a week on th' moor,--that's 4s., an' we've 2s.
a week to pay out o' that for rent.

Yo may guess fro that, heaw we are.

He should ha' been workin' on the moor today, but they've bin rain't off.

We've no kind o' meight i' this house bod three-ha'poth o' peas; an' we've no firin'.

He's just brokken up an owd cheer to heat th' watter wi'.


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