"Well, third time pays for all. See if we don't dang th' masters this time. See if they don't come and beg us to come back at our own price. That's all. We've missed it afore time, I grant yo'; but this time we'n laid our plans desperate deep."
"Why do you strike?" asked Margaret. "Striking is leaving off work till you get your own rate of wages, is it not? You must not wonder at my ignorance; where I come from I never heard of a strike."

'Well, third time pays for all. See if we don't dang th' masters this time. See if they don't beg us to come back at our own price, that's all. This time we'n laid our plans desperate deep.'
'Why do you strike?' asked Margaret. 'Excuse my ignorance; where I come from I never heard of a strike.'
