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Updated: May 15, 2025
They were amongst the ablest labourers in the parish, used to working long hours at high pressure, and indifferent to what they did, provided that the pay was good. I heard of them from time to time now at railway work, now at harvesting, now helping where a bridge was being built, and so on. It was the depression of the winter of 1908-09 that finally broke up their comradeship.
More than once during the winter of 1908-09, it being a time of great distress, gravel-pit workers came to me with some of those worked flints the big paleoliths of the river-gravel which they had found and saved up, but now desired to sell, in order to raise money for pointing their pickaxes.
During the trade depression which culminated in 1908-09 I was frequently made aware of the disquiet of their minds by the scraps of talk which reached me as I passed along the road, and were not meant for my hearing. From women who were comparing notes with one another, this was the sort of thing one would hear: "'En't had nothin' to do this six weeks; and don't sim no likelihoods of it."
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