"I wish I were there," said Bessie, wearily. "But it's not for me to get sick and tired o' strikes. This is the last I'll see. Before it's ended I shall be in the Great City--the Holy Jerusalem."
"Hoo's so full of th' life to come, hoo cannot think of th' present. Now I, yo see, am bound to do the best I can here. I think a bird i' th' hand is worth two i' th' bush. So them's the different views we take on th' strike question."
"But," said Margaret, "if the people struck, as you call it, where I come from, as they are mostly all field labourers, the seed would not be sown, the hay got in, the corn reaped."

'I wish I were there,' said Bessy, wearily. 'But this is the last strike I'll see. Before it's ended I shall be in the Great City - the Holy Jerusalem.'
'Hoo's so full of th' life to come, hoo cannot think of th' present. Now I am bound to do the best I can here. So them's the different views we take on th' strike question.'
'But,' said Margaret, 'if the people struck, where I come from, as they are mostly field labourers, the seed would not be sown, or the corn reaped. 