He used his influence and recommended me on all sides, and finally, and, this time, after a shorter time than before in the pit, Moss and Thornton offered me a tour of six weeks.
"Nance," I said to the wife, when the offer came and I had written to accept it, "I'm thinkin' it'll be sink or swim this time.

I'll no be goin' back to the pit, come weal, come woe." She looked at me.
"It's bad for the laddies there to be havin' the chance to crack their jokes at me," I went on.

"I'll stick to it this time and see whether I can mak' a living for us by singin'.

And I think that if I can't I'll e'en find other work than in the mine." Again she proved herself.

For again she said: "It's yersel' ye must please, Harry.