It's just on the other side of the workings--a horribly squalid place.

I never go near it.

It's called High Shale, but it's very low really, right in a pocket of the hills, and very unhealthy.

You can see the smoke hanging over there now.

The cottages are wretched places, and the people who live in them--words fail! Ashcott, the agent and manager of the mines, says they are quite hopeless, and so they are.