Vulgar words in Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine (Page 1)
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Some on 'em gets knocked up neaw an' then, an' they han to stop a-whoam a day or two; an' some on 'em connot ston gettin' weet through--it mays 'em ill; an' here an' theer one turns up at doesn't like the job at o'--they'd rayther clem.
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We yerd ov a chap at Lytham at wanted a lad to tak care o' six jackasses an' a pony.
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Lower down the slope there were three other lads plaguing a young jackass colt; and further off, on the town edge of the moor, several children from the streets hard by, were wandering about the green hollow, picking daisies, and playing together in the sunshine.
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From a distant part of the moor, the bray of a jackass came faint upon the sleepy wind.
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The country folk of Lancashire say that a weaver dies every time a jackass brays.