Image: The Cornish fishermen's watch-night, and other stories (1879) (14753162795)

Description: Identifier: cornishfishermen00reli (find matches) Title: The Cornish fishermen's watch-night, and other stories Year: 1879 (1870s) Authors: Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) Subjects: Publisher: (London) Religious Tract Soc Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: hearty gang of navvies.Once Sam had watched and saw him reachover a part of his dinner to a mate who was not up to the mark, when the said matecould not swallow the hard fare he hadprovided himself with ; and Sam wished toknow more, being, as he would have said,*kinder curus on sich pints, so he asked.* Prhaps youll oblige ? How long have we got, mates ? Matter of half-hour before the reliefcomes/ * Ill sing you a song at last, if youll heara story first. Hear! hear! said Sam; and the restagreed. So the new hand placed himself alittle nearer the middle of the group, andleaning on his pick, began : * A bargain is a bargain, mates, and Ishall keep you to your word ; if you donthear me out—no song. Im going to talkabout my little Meg ; and if you dont knowwhy I am quiet-like now, you will before Ihave done. Once I had as nice a home as Told at a TtmncFs Mouth. 79 any man need wish for, and tlie girl Ibrought to it was the right sort, I can tellyou ; none of your flashy, dressy, empty- Text Appearing After Image: headed ones, but a right down decent hard-working maid she was. But she was reli-gious, always wanted to go to church or 8o Told at a Ttmnels Mouth, cliapel, or what not, on tlie Sunday, and Ididnt care for that ; so I told her, AHce,*says I, you have married me, and ^^oullhave to stick to me, or else therell be a row.Well, she begged to go, but I would nothear a word of it ; so she gave in. ^ So we went on for more than a year ; Iwas middlin steady, and she kept the homeup well, only I noticed she seemed lesshappy-like ; and if I stopped her going tochurch or chapel on Sunday, I couldnt gether to go out for pleasure with me ; for shesaid, Fairs fair; I keep away from oneplace to please you, I keep away from othersto please myself. And I thought there wassomething in that; dont you? The men made a murmur, half yes,half no, and seemed to grow more at-tentive ; it was level with their under-standing. He went on. Soon after that Meg was born, and howglad Alice was, to be sure! why, that Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The Cornish fishermen's watch-night, and other stories (1879) (14753162795)
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