 I have a belt round my waist and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my hands and feet. The road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope, and when there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of.  The Monthly Review - Sida 1771842Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1841 - 278 sidor
...Betty Harris, aged thirty-seven, drawer in a coal-pit, Little Bolton, Lancashire, says — " I hr.ve a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between...rope, by anything we can catch hold of. There are six wora^n and about six boys and girls in the pit I work in : it is very hard work for a woman. The pit... | |
 | 1842 - 832 sidor
...situation of the women in a state of pregnancy. ' I have a belt round my waist,' says Betty Harris, ' and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my...hands and feet. The road is very steep, and we have to bold by a rope, and where there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. It is very hard work... | |
 | 1842 - 1042 sidor
...practice prevails. Thus Betty Harris, aged 37, drawer in a coal-pit at Little Bolton, says: — " I have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between...feet. The road is very steep, and we have to hold by a 4U4 405 rope, and when there is no rope, by any thing we can catch hold of. There are six women and... | |
 | 1843 - 862 sidor
...upon.'] "— Pp. 80, 81. " Betty Harris, aged thirty-seven, drawer in a coal-pit, Little Bolton : 'I have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between...steep, and we have to hold by a rope, and, when there hi no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys and girls in tbe... | |
 | 1843 - 894 sidor
...accurate in their evidence on their own condition. ' I have & belt round my waist,' says Betty Harris, ' and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my...is very steep ; and we have to hold by a rope, and, where there is no rope, by any thing we can catch hold of. It is very hard work for a woman. The pit... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1843 - 942 sidor
...accurate in their evidence on their own condition. ' I have a belt round my waist,' says Betty Harris, ' and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my...is very steep ; and we have to hold by a rope, and, where there is no rope, by any thing we can catch hold of. It is very hard work fur a woman. The pit... | |
 | John C. Cobden - 1853 - 528 sidor
...is another good thing.' " Betty Harris, aged thirty-seven, drawer in a coal-pit, Little Bolton : ' I have a belt round my waist and a chain passing between...have to hold by a rope, and when there is no rope, by any thing we can catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys and girls in the pit I work... | |
 | Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury - 1868 - 466 sidor
...situation of the women in a state of pregnancy. " I have a belt round my waist," says Betty Harris, " and a chain passing between my legs, and I go on my...is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope, and where there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. It is very hard work for a woman. . . . The... | |
 | Republican Congressional Committee - 1880 - 240 sidor
...have a belt around my waist and a chain between my legs to the truck, and I go on my hands and fret y the road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope,...catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys or girls in the pit I work in ; it is very wet, and the water comes over our clog-tops always, and... | |
 | 1880 - 236 sidor
...have a, belt around my waist and a chain between my legs to the truck, and I go on my hands and fett ; the road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope,...catch hold of. There are six women and about six boys or girl* in the pit I work in ; it is very wet, and the water comes over our clog-tops always, and... | |
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