And, in such nooks as this, there may be found many decent working people, who have been accustomed to live a cleanly life in their humble way in healthy quarters, now reduced to extreme penury, pinching, and pining, and nursing the flickering hope of better days, which may enable them to flee from the foul harbour which strong necessity has driven them to.

I saw an example of this in a little bye- street, at the upper end of Scholesa quarter of Wigan where the poorest of the poor reside, and where many decent working people have lately been driven for cheap shelter by the stress of the times.

I SHALL NEVER DO ANY DECENT WORK IN THIS ATMOSPHERE.

so I can't do decent work, even to keep up my own self-respect till I do go.

It's light an' decent work, an' one may live by it an' see much o' the world.'

"As a matter of fact, I was unable to do any decent work on that day or on the following days, for the song kept running through my head.

He knows that he is an ordinary man, and that he can count as many kindly memories, as many humane instincts, as many hours of decent work and responsibility as any other ordinary man.

When a decent working-man takes himself and his work critically, people call him grumbler, idler, bore; but when an idle scoundrel shouts that it is necessary to work, he is applauded.