The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-28 00:00:00

The Coal-Pitman Above around.

The pitman never feels hungry while at work, but on
coming out he feels ravenous and takes food as soon as he
enters his cottage. Many of the fore-shift men (the night
workers) take crowdy, which is a compound of oatmeal, hot
water, and butter; others take coffee or tea, with bread and
butter, and some take dinner. The back-shift men (day
workers) always take dinner when they come home. This
usually consists of roast beef or mutton and potatoes, with
feurra g Pudding. They eat their pudding
mutton after. They take animal food once
or
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seldom or never drink beer at dinner.
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then they wash. This washing
process
water is set down before the fire; the man then sits down
on a small stool, with a leg on each side of the tub, and,
supplied with a piece of soap, he begins by washing
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his hands, arms, and chest—head, neck, and face follow,
and the ends with the lower extremities, the one after the
other. This finished, if in the fore-shift, he goes to bed,
his wife brings him his
pipe lighted, and in a few seconds
he is fast asleep. The back-shift men dress after dinner
and eraplo7 themselves as their fancy leads them. Quoits,
bowling, and ball playing are their out-door games ; crieket,
wrestling, and jumping are seldom practised. A species of
pitch and toss is their great gambling game. Their home
games are whist, draughts, and dominoes. Whatever
amusement or subject they take up is stuck to perseveringly.
They are very Matter-of-fact, and have considerable power
of conce!itration. Every available piece of ground near the
villages is Converted into a garden, and almost every cottage
has one attached to it. Some keep poultry, and most feed a
pig ; they cure their own bacon with great success. Their
bread is tome made;
two kinds are used by them—white
and brown. " Spiced wigs" prevail on Sundays, and the
4, singing hinny" still makes its appearance on grand occa-
sions. Great excesses are still prevalent on pay Friday and
SaturdaYnights ; ale is the liquor chit fly drunk; but no
matter witat excesses a man may commit on the pay week
end he must be at his post on the Monday following, or
run the isk of being turned off; so that the habitual
drunkard is certain to lose his employment. In all my ex-
perience Imong them I have never known a case of dipso-
mania, ncr vet have I been called upon to treat a single case
of deliritnn tremens; and this is more than I can say for
many (Uhl. callings,— Weekly Journal.

[ADvEtnsEmENT].—Holloway's Ointment.—Agonising
Pains.--it is gratifying to hear sufferers recount the ease
they derived when first they applied this ointment to their
ulcers,
sols, or abscesses, with which they had been afflicted
for years. Soon after its application to a bad leg or inflam-
matory ucer, it restrains the excitement of blood vessels
and nerves, which at once brings coolness and comfort, and
furthers lhe gradual deposits of healthy materials to fill up
the ravates caused by violence, debility, or disease. It
expels all noxious matters, and heals all sores soundly. It
gives ease to varicose veins, bad legs, swellings of the feet
and joints, when the agony is almost unremitting and the
pain too auch for a giant's strength.