Yi, Joe, I'll back my life o' that.
GRANDMOTHER
Eh, Mr. Chambers, what's this affliction on my old age. You kept your sons out o' the pit, but all mine's in. And to think of the trouble I've had—to think o' the trouble that's come out of Brinsley pit to me.
MANAGER
It has that, it 'as that, missis. You seem to have had more 'n your share; I'll admit it, you have.
MRS. HOLROYD (who has been staring at the men)
It is too much!
[Blackmore frowns; Rigley glowers at her.
MANAGER
You never knowed such a thing in your life. Here's a man, holin' a stint, just finishin' (He puts himself as if in the holer's position, gesticulating freely) An' a lot o' stuff falls behind him, clean as a whistle, shuts him up safe as a worm in a nut and niver touches him—niver knowed such a thing in your life.