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Money we live for, and money we are when we're dead: that or nothing. An' it's money as is between the masters and us. There's a few educated ones got hold of one end of the rope, and all the lot of us hanging on to th' other end, an' we s'll go on pulling our guts out, time in, time out " "But they've got th' long end o' th' rope, th' masters has," said Brewitt.
"He'd go home to his bed just the same." "There, you are mistaken. He would be the better, and so should I, a great deal better, for a little genuine conversation." "If it's conversation as ma'es his behind drop " said Tom Kirk. "An' puts th' bile in his face " said Brewitt. There was a general laugh.
"Educate the children, so that they can lay hold of the long end of the rope, instead of the short end," said the doctor, with a little giggle. "Ay, that's it," said Brewitt. "I've pulled at th' short end, an' my lads may do th' same." "A selfish policy," put in the landlady. "Selfish or not, they may do it." "Till the crack o' doom," said Aaron, with a glistening smile.
"Or the crack o' th' rope," said Brewitt. "Yes, and THEN WHAT?" cried the landlady. "Then we all drop on our backsides," said Kirk. There was a general laugh, and an uneasy silence. "All I can say of you men," said the landlady, "is that you have a narrow, selfish policy. Instead of thinking of the children, instead of thinking of improving the world you live in "
Brewitt, the blacksmith, said to me the other day that his 'prentice had no mind to his trade; 'and yet, sir, said Brewitt, 'what would a young fellow have if he doesn't like the blacksmithing?" The rector cherished a fatherly delight, which he allowed to escape him only in moderation.
"The welfare of a collier," said the landlady, "is that he shall earn sufficient wages to keep himself and his family comfortable, to educate his children, and to educate himself; for that is what he wants, education." "Ay, happen so," put in Brewitt, a big, fine, good-humoured collier. "Happen so, Mrs. Houseley. But what if you haven't got much education, to speak of?"
"We hang on, British bulldog breed," said Brewitt. There was a general laugh. "Yes, and little wiser than dogs, wrangling for a bone," said the landlady. "Are we to let t' other side run off wi' th' bone, then, while we sit on our stunts an' yowl for it?" asked Brewitt. "No indeed. There can be wisdom in everything.
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