underviewer

Updated: May 4, 2025

"Well, about nine, the viewer and underviewer came up with the overman, and stood talking alongside of me, when there came a something sudden and sharp, as tho' one had boxed your ears, and then a 'whiz, whiz, and the viewer stumbled a one side, and cried out, 'God save us! "I hardly knew what had happened till I heard him singing out clear and firm, 'Come here to me, you lads; come here.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn