My brothers were a' at work in other pits where there was no strike called.

I was able to see it through, and I cheered with a good will when the District Agents of the miners made speeches and urged us to stay oot till the masters gave in.

But I could see, even then, that, there were men who did no feel sae easy in their minds over the strike.

Jamie Lowden was one o' them.

Jamie and I were good friends, though not sae close as some.
I could see that Jamie was taking the strike much more to heart than I.He'd come oot wi' the rest of us at the first, and he went to all the mass meetings, though I didna hear him, ever mak' a speech, as most of us did, one time or another.