Life in a Railway Factory Part 16

"Come on, Lightning!"

"Unknown sw.a.n.k!"

"All hot! All hot!"

"You'll get the price cut directly."

"Come and see the boys!"

"I'm a-lookin' at ya!"

"Ain't a burned one yet."

"Don't make a song about it."

"You got a good mate on the hammer."

"Fifty without stoppin' the wind. All new uns!"

"See who you are!"

"Stand back, and mind the mallet! There's one for you, Wormy!"

"Take a couple, mate?"

"Come on with 'em."

_Slap, slap._

_Bang, bang, bang._

_Bang, bang, bang._

"Fire's gettin' low. Wants some more c.o.ke up."

"Wher' d'ye want thase few pieces, Willums!"

"Tip 'em up anywhere, Mat!"

"All you'll get to-day."

"You're talking wet. They won't last five minutes."

"You'll hef to see gaffer, then. We got to change knives."

"Get out of the road, or you'll get your whiskers singed."

"Dossent thee fret thy kidneys. This is too d.a.m.n hot for me. You got no room to mauve."

"Somebody got to do a bit."

"Thee dossent do't all."

"You'd have to go home if I did."

"Top hammer's stopped now. Middle un's ready."

"What's up a-top? Going to start, there? See that rope's all right! Have the sharp edges took off the wheel."

"We be done for."

"What's the matter?"

"Top block broke. Only had forty more to do."

"Ram up, and get your dies out. Give a hand there, mates."

"'Tis all bad luck this mornin', ain' it?"

"'Tis the chaps as make the luck. What do you think? We get on all right."

"Here's the b.u.mmer in a tear."

"Why the h.e.l.l don't you be careful! You'll break all the tackle in creation. First one thing and then another. Ropes and wheels and dies.

You wants to go home for a month. That 'ood teach 'e a lesson. You don't trouble a d.a.m.n for nothing."

"I asked the fitters to see to it, and they wouldn't come."

"That block was never strong enough for the job."

"Go an' fetch Moses. What ya goin' to put in next?"

"Pull-rod levers. Die seventy-two."

"Don' want them. Put in hunderd an' one."

"Chargeman says levers. Wanted urgent. Chaps bin up after 'em."

"Let 'em wait. I'm the foreman. You knows that."

"All right. Don' make no difference to me."

"Did you send for me?"

"I did. Get on wi' new blocks for piston rods."

"Any alterations?"