Disliked Them Too.
The pretty factory girls of Yorkshire and Lancashire stand no nonsense from the men they "keep company" with. If the latter grow at all lax in their courting, they are speedily sent to the right-about. A young mill hand arranged to take his girl for a walk one afternoon, but did not turn up till close on tea time. He had been waiting, he casually explained, for a racing ipigeon to come back to the cote, and it had fiown so slowly that he was quite disgusted with it. The girl greeted this cool excuse with a sniff, and deliberately proceeded to take ofr hei hat. 1 " "And what will you' do wi' it now it's failed to keep good time?" she asked. "Gi'e it another chance?" "Not I ! I shall hand it over to Jack Smith, who ain't so particular as me, 'and get a better birr!.'* "Then Ah'll hand thee o'er to 'Liza Smart, and whistle up another feller," declared the girl, nodding- significantly towards the door. "Ah'm like thee : Ah can't abide late birds !" And the young man, despite his entreaties, had to go.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 69
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