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An when he wor layin there, I ses to myself, 'He's the third as the coal-gettin ha took from me. An I minded my feyther an uncle how they was braat home both togither, when I wor nobbut thirteen years old not a scar on em, nobbut a little blood on my feyther's forehead but stone dead, both on em from the afterdamp. Theer was thirty-six men killed in that explosion an I recolleck how old Mr.

"Her 'usband bought the lease o' two little 'ouses in Church Street, and they braat 'er in six shillin's a week for years, an' she allus said she'd leave it to Bessie if she wor took afore the lease wor up. But the lease ull be up end o' next year, I know, for I saw the old lady myself last Michaelmas twelve-month, an' she told me all about it, though I worn't to tell nobody meself.

'Her 'usband bought the lease o' two little 'ouses in Church Street, and they braät 'er in six shillins a week for years, an she allus said she'd leave it to Bessie if she wor took afore the lease wor up. But the lease ull be up end o' next year I know, for I saw the old lady myself last Michaelmas twelvemonth, an she told me all about it, though I worn't to tell nobody meself.

"An they braat him in, an they laid him on that settle" she pointed to the bench by the fire "an the doctors didn't interfere there wor nowt to do they left me alone wi un.