They wur not paid for weet days at th' furst; an' they geet it into their yeds at Shorrock were to blame.

The old woman said that the husband was "a grinder in a card-room when they geet wed, an' he addled about 8s.

a week; but, after they geet wed, his wife larn't him to weighve upo' th' peawer-looms."

Well, th' lad were i' good heart abeawt it; an' when he geet theer th' chap towd him at he thought he wur very likely for th' job, so that made it better,an' th' lad begun o' wearin' his bit o' brass o' summat to eat, an' sich like, thinkin' he're sure o' th' shop.

But I geet atop ov a bit ov a knowe, an' towd 'em a fair tale, what I wanted, an' what I would have, an' I put it to 'em whether they didn't consider it reet.

But month after month went by, an' th' brass kept gettin' less, do what we would; an' th' times geet wur, till at last we fund ersels fair stagged up.

An' then, at after that, he geet his arm broken; an' soon after he'd getten o'er that, he wur nearly brunt to deeath i' one o'th pits at Ratcliffe; an' aw haven't quite done yet, for, after that, he lee ill o'th rheumatic fayver sixteen week.

Speaking of her husband, she said, "He were eawt o' wark a good while; but he geet a shop at last, at Blackrod, abeawt four mile off Wigan.

Well, when we coom to Gorton we geet twopence-hawpenny theer; an' that wur o'.

Well, at after that twopence-hawpenny, we geet twopence moor, an' that's o' at we'n getten.

Martha an' me's walked aboon ten mile iv we'n walked a yard; an' we geet weet through th' first thing; an' aw wur ill when we set off, an' so wur Martha, too; aw know hoo wur, though hoo says nought.

See yo; aw wur fit to drop o'th flags afore aw geet that saup

You shall heare more on't: When thou art married, if the kind charity Of other men permitt thee to geet thee children That call thy wife mother, bring them up To people shopps and cheat for 18d, The pretious youth that fathers them.

But we hant had no Deth in the time of it, and we wont to no somthing A Bout our School her at for ef we can geet the teacher we can have a good School now, for the is good many pepel wating on us, now.

It were the biggest o' th' clutch, an' the prattiest, an' so I called it Victoria, an' it geet to know th' name, an' to coom when I called iteh, it 'ud coom runnin' up an' croodle down aside o' me, turnin' its yead o' one side that knowin'!

" She looked at me appealingly, and, being assured of my sympathy, continued "Well, last neet I were very lonesome when I geet into bed, an' I began o' thinkin' o' my mother, an' wonderin' where hoo was.

An' I geet agate o' cryin' an' axin' mysel wheer was heaven, an' was hoo raly theer.

Meen-ye-geet-k°hin, Ten.

Fifty-six, for instance, is "Nee-akh-khleep-kin-meen-ye-geet-khin-par-ol-in-nín-míl-li-gen," and it is only fifty-six after it is all pronounced!