.

It's thin pikein' for poor folk just neaw.

But th' shopkeepers an' th' ale-heawses are in for it as ill as ony mak.
There'll be crashin' amung some on 'em afore lung." After this, I spent a few minutes in the market-place, which was "slacker" than usual, as might be expected, for, as the Scotch proverb says, "Sillerless folk gang fast through the market." Later on, I went up to Bank Top, on the eastern edge of the town, where many factory operatives reside.

Of course, there is not any special quarter where they are clustered in such a manner as to show their condition as a whole.

They are scattered all round the town, living as near as possible to the mills in which they are employed.