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Updated: May 13, 2025

There's some folk can sit i'th heawse an' send their childer to prow eawt a-beggin' in a mornin', regilar, but eawr childer wouldn't do it, an', iv they would, aw wouldn' let 'em, naw, not iv we were clemmin' to deeoth, to my thinkin'." The woman was quite right.

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