grave-diggin's

Updated: May 20, 2025

I couldn't tell where the sound came from. It seems, after all, the grave can praise God, although the prophet tells us it cannot. Do you always sing at your work? 'Partly whod. You see it's i' this way, sir, said Joseph; 'grave-diggin's hard wark, and if a felley doesn'd sing a bit o'er it he's like baan to curse, so I sings to stop swears.

Marshall Mather - Lancashire Idylls (1898)