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Updated: May 11, 2025

Aw shouldn't ha' care't iv it had nobbut bin a mile, or two even; for aw'd far rayther that he had his meals comfortable awhoam, an' his bits o' clooas put reet; but Lord bless yo, eight mile a day, beside a hard day's wark, it knocked him up at last, it were so like.

Edwin Waugh - Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine