They had always lived near to the ground, for the husband's earnings at the loom were seldom more than 7s.

for a full week.

The wife told us that they were not receiving any relief, for she said that when her husband "had bin eawt o' wark a good while he turn't his hond to shaving;" and in this way the ingenious struggling fellow had scraped a thin living for them during many months.

"But," said she, " it brings varra little in, we hev to trust so much.

He shaves four on 'em for a haw-penny, an' there's a deal on 'em connot pay that.
Yo know, they're badly off--( the woman seemed to think her circumstances rather above the common kind); an' then," continued she, "when they'n run up a shot for three-hawpence or twopence or so, they cannot pay it o' no shap, an' so they stoppen away fro th' shop.