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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Ah! the other half," said Liza Gray, with a sigh. "Well, then we shall have a death in our family soon this poor babe can't struggle on much longer; it belongs to two burial clubs that will be three pounds from each, and after the drink and the funeral, there will be enough to pay all our debts and put us all square." The doors of Mr Diggs' tommy-shop opened.
At this moment, Stephen Morley, for the reader has doubtless discovered that the stranger who held colloquy with the colliers was the friend of Walter Gerard, arrived at the tommy-shop, which was about half-way between the house where he had passed the night and Wodgate.
They engage and pay the colliers in some pits, in others the owners deal direct." "And what is a 'tommy-shop'?" "'Tommy' is the local word for 'truck' paying in kind instead of in money. You see, the butties and the owners between them used to own the public-houses and the provision-shops, and the amount of coin of the realm the men got in wages in the bad old times was infinitesimal.
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