"If it were summer," said Higgins, "I'd take to Paddy's work, and go as a navvy, or haymaking, or summat, and ne'er see Milton again. But it's winter, and th' childer will clem."
"A pretty navvy you'd make! why you couldn't do half a day's work at digging against an Irishman."
"I'd only charge half-a-day for th' twelve hours, if I could only do half-a-day's work in th' time. Yo're not knowing of any place, where they could gi' me a trial, away fro' the mills, if I'm such a firebrand? I'd take any wage they thought I was worth, for the sake of those childer."

'If it were summer,' said Higgins, 'I'd do Paddy's work, and go as a navvy, or haymaking, or summut. But it's winter, and th' childer will clem.'
'A pretty navvy you'd make! why, you couldn't do half a day's digging against an Irishman.'
'I'd only charge half-a-day for twelve hours, if I could only do half-a-day's work in th' time. Yo're not knowing of any place, where they could gi' me a trial? I'd take any wage they thought I was worth, for the sake of those childer.'
