Men pooled their labor and implements at hay time and harvest, and combined for their mutual benefit in other ways.
Now it looked as if they might combine again.
"Are they grumbling much at Allerby about burning peat ?" he asked.
"T' women grumble," Tom said dryly.

"But they willunt stop, for aw the dirt peat maks an' they canna get ovens hot.

I reckon Bell has mair coal coming in than he can get shut of.

When I was at station last t' yards was nearly full." "I rather think Bell has been too greedy.

He must pay for the coal as it arrives and his money is probably getting short; the traction engine and trailer cost a good sum, and he has spent something on the lime-kilns.