hatepens, wich may seme a lite matter,
but is not, and all other things risin too for cumpany's sake, it makes
me wunder how JON an me an our siks shall hever get hover our merry
Krismas and appy new yere, and the frost an starvashun an all the hother
complemens of the seeson. An so the hother hevenin as me an JON an our
siks was all in bed afore our husiwal time, a goin to try if we could
dreme of a warm fire an a bit of supper wich as dremes mostly goes by
contrairies we wos werry like to do, I sez to JON sez I, Wot makes coles
so dere? Is it the LORD MARE a fetherin of his nest by taxin of em, an
callin it his dooty? If wun of his dooties is taxin pore peepul's coles,
I wunder wot the others is, I sez, or air the Turks an Rooshans a goin
to fite by steme? I sez, not that i thort so, but i wanted to cheer up
JON who were terribul cast down, poor feller!

"No, sez JON, it haint. Colliers have struk work and coles is riz
accordin. Then, i sez, its a burnin shame an i wont abear it. It haint
no ways strange that Turks an Rooshans who air heathens born should
squabbel and fite, an raise the price o' bred for they air savages an
'tis their natur so,' as DOCTOR WOTSISNAME sez in the him, but that sum
of our hone pore peepul as ave shared the bred of afflikshun with hus,
wen their worn't too much to share neither, an nose wot our sufferins
must be, should go an raise the price of coles upon hus, is agin all
natur. But, sez JON, colliers ave struk for wages an u cant blame them
for that. Indede I do JON, sez I, an I spoke hup for I new JON an his
mates wos thinkin of a strike. Indede I do, Wot good did strikes hever
do the pore? Tisnt honely in coles JON as strikes is goin on, but in
hother trades, and in hall on em tis the men and their wives an children
an not the masters as suffers. If the masters wanted the men werry much
as they wood if trade wos brisk they wood ave riz wages without a
strike, but hoffen an hoffen a strike helps masters to get rid of men
they don't want, but wouldn't like to turn hoff. Strikes makes coles
dere, and likewise heverything helse as the men gives hover makin. But
who gets the hextra price of the coles and the factory goods? Why the
masters that larf at the pore fules of men that air takin bred hout of
their famlies mouths and hout of hour mouths too, to put it hinto
theirn. But the men, JON, gets nothin by a strike, but time to lounge
about publicks, an spend their litel savins an spout their