These were, I shortly found, connected almost solely with the dusty nature of the job, and the consequent thirst engendered in the operators.

On my affording an opportunity, through the medium of the currency of the realm, of the allaying, at a later period, this beneficial evil, one of the men remarked, "That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in.

Blyme! But it ain't been touched sence a hundred years.

There was dust that thick in the place that you might have slep' on it without 'urtin' of yer bones.

An' the place was that neglected that yer might 'ave smelled ole Jerusalem in it.