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Matthews said such good carpets and curtains, two chests of drawers, and an harmonium and pictures and flowers in the windows. George! what are 'butties'?" "'Butties' are sub-contractors," he said absently "men who contract with the pit-owners to get the coal, either on a large or a small scale now mostly on a small scale.
They'd had a free fight at Gib with the Ports battalion there; they cleared out the town of Lagos; and they'd fought a pitched battle with the dockyard-mateys at Devonport. So they'd done 'emselves well, but they didn't want any more military life for a bit." "And the strike?" "That ended, all right enough, when the strike-money came to an end. The pit-owners were furious.
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