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Updated: June 24, 2025
The labourers or "work-folk", as they used to call themselves immemorially till the other word was introduced from without who wish to remain no longer in old places are removing to the new farms. These annual migrations from farm to farm were on the increase here.
He said it was better than the theatre, of which it reminded him, to see those people through their windows: a family party of work-folk at a late tea, some of the men in their shirt-sleeves; a woman sewing by a lamp; a mother laying her child in its cradle; a man with his head fallen on his hands upon a table; a girl and her lover leaning over the window-sill together.
I wish that all the work-folk could know this, and could know him their friend in life as he was in literature; as he was in such a glorious gospel of equality as the 'Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Whether I will or no I must let things come into my story thoughtwise, as he would have let them, for I cannot remember them in their order.
Here he deposited the cap and coat in secure hiding, afterwards going round to the front and opening the door in the usual way. In the entry he met Hannah, who said 'Only to hear what have been seed to-night, Mr. Swithin! The work-folk have dropped in to tell us! In the kitchen were the men who had outstripped him on the road.
He was interested in all that concerns the industrial population of Great Britain; he was making that subject his speciality; he meant to link his name with factory Acts, with education Acts, with Acts for the better housing of the work-folk, with what not of the kind. And the single working man for whom he veritably cared one jot was Mr. James Dalmaine.
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