Excerpts from the Book 'Facing Death':

... they'll go, like sheep through a gate. There's half a dozen or so would go t'other way, but the rest won't listen to them. So for the sake of a shilling ...
... what are our expenses, and what we can afford to pay, and we will accept no dictation whatever from the men as to their rate of wages. If I prefer, ...
... Then Jack, the strain over, sat down, and cried like a child. Half an hour later, listening intently, he heard a deep sound in the distance. ...
... Merton spoke so highly to me. My wife is going to have the girls' school, have you heard? No, indeed, Jack said Mr. Merton did not mention ...
... nine and ten. This rule was agreed to without a dissentient voice. Now, Jack said, I doan't know as you'll all like the next rule ...
... not be allowed to say except to some one with whom you are very intimate. There are as many various shades of compliment as there are of intimacy. A ...
... and endurance, that the offer was made to him that, if he liked to go to Birmingham and put himself under that noted pugilist the Chicken, his expenses ...
... who would have certainly opposed any such design being carried out, were kept in ignorance of what was intended the greater portion were indeed ...
... an eye that night. Mothers went down and implored the pitmen on guard to release their sons, but the pitmen were firm moreover Mr. Brook as a magistrate ...
... Hardy had, ever since the attack upon the Vaughan, received an allowance from the union, as well as from the sick club to which he belonged, ...
... were hung up for the use of visitors and others, and prepared to go down. Then he went to the lamp-room and fetched four Davy-lamps. While he was ...
... be regarded both as a luxury, and as being very valuable in assisting the men to keep down the pangs of hunger. This had to be divided only ...
... Facing Death CHAPTER XXVII. RESCUED. A stranger arriving at Stokebridge on that Sunday morning might have thought that ...
... her white face and hard unnatural voice, none could have told how she suffered. Harry had brought her the news of the smoke being seen from the shaft ...
... 'ee. What did 'ee hit I and Bess for? It would serve 'ee roight if she had pinned 'ee instead o' t' horse. Call them off, the fellow shouted ...
... surprise of the colliers when he spoke in perfect English without a trace of accent or dialect was great indeed. Standing up in the gig in which ...
... some ten years of age, with an old bull-dog lying at his feet, and another standing by his side, watching him. Well, lad, what are you doing? ...
... road the horses go through to the upper end of the mine, half a mile farther. How do it make a differ whether this door be open or shut, father? ...
... a snare. Satisfied that justice had been done, Jack now said a few words of thanks to his employer and the subscribers to his present, and the meeting ...
... THE EXPLOSION AT THE VAUGHAN. CHAPTER XXIV. IN DEADLY PERIL. CHAPTER XXV. THE IMPRISONED MINERS. CHAPTER XXVI. A CRITICAL MOMENT. CHAPTER XXVII. ...