coal-pit-clothes

Updated: June 18, 2025

A short time after it became generally known that Johnson was to speak, a young lad might be seen hurrying home in his coal-pit-clothes to a low, dirty-looking cottage that stood on the outskirts of the village. "Mother," cried the boy, as soon as he reached the house and could recover his breath, "where's fayther?" "He's not come home yet," said the mother; "but what ails you, John?"

Theodore P. Wilson - Frank Oldfield: Lost and Found