Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 19, 2025
"We had a Chartist here the other day, but he did not understand our case at all." "I heard him," said Master Nixon, "but what's his Five Points to us? Why he ayn't got tommy among them." "Nor long stints," said Waghorn. "Nor butties," said Juggins. "He's a pretty fellow to come and talk to us," said a collier. "He had never been down a pit in all his life."
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.
What's going on in the pit is known only to God Almighty and the colliers. I have been a consistent methodist for many years, strived to do well, and all the harm I have ever done to the butties was to tell them that their deeds would not stand on the day of judgment.
"We never want no soldiers here if the masters would speak with the men; but the sight of a pitman is pison to a gentleman, and if we go up to speak with 'em, they always run away." "It's the butties," said Nixon; "they're wusser nor tommy." "The people will never have their rights," said the stranger, "until they learn their power.
The disappearance of old abuses, of "butties" and "tommy-shops"; the greater care for life; the accident laws; the inspectors. He found himself growing eloquent at last, yet all the time regarding himself, as it were, from a distance ironically.
"Ay, Jack Simpson; the mate I ha' worked with ever since we were butties together. A fall just came as we worked side by side in the stall, and it broke his neck, and he's dead." The woman dropped into a chair, threw her apron over her head, and cried aloud, partly at the loss of her husband's mate, partly at the thought of the narrow escape he had himself had.
Mounted on a white mule, wall-eyed and of hideous form, the Bishop brandished a huge hammer with which he had announced he would destroy the enemies of the people: all butties, doggies, dealers in truck and tommy, middle masters and main masters. Some thousand Hell-cats followed him brandishing bludgeons, or armed with bars of iron, pickhandles, and hammers.
"They're going to try it and they'll come out if it isn't satisfactory." "The butties won't have it, I know," she said. He gave a short laugh, and went on with his meal. The two children were squatted on the floor by the tree. They had a wooden box, from which they had taken many little newspaper packets, which they were spreading out like wares. "Don't open any.
Notwithstanding the spread of its civic prosperity, it has lost none of the characteristics of its original society; on the contrary it has zealously preserved them. There are no landlords, head-lessees, main-masters, or butties in Wodgate.
*A Butty in the mining districts is a middleman: a Doggy is his manager. The Butty generally keeps a Tommy or Truck shop and pays the wages of his labourers in goods. When miners and colliers strike they term it, "going to play." "There's wus things as tommy," said a collier who had hitherto been silent, "and that's these here butties.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking