[3] Atlas, presumably.
[4] ‘Mistetched’ = spoiled; of ill habits. Cf. Chaucer’s ‘tetch,’ a spot.
[5] ‘Cavil’ = the quarterly ballot amongst coal-hewers for their places down the pit. Seams differ greatly in quality and depth of coal, and in ease of working. This is the miners’ own rough-and-ready method of adjusting the inequalities.
[6] The chairman of a local District Council is ex-officio a magistrate.
[7] ‘Shootin’’ (shouting). ‘Shuttin’,’ on the other hand, would mean shooting, whereby quaint confusions have occasionally arisen.
[8] Come along.
[9] The Assizes.
[10] Viz., Bonnie Bella, a famous greyhound of ‘the Heckler’s.’
[11] Manager.
[12] Row.