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`` You may well say Simmon 's , Mrs Page ; I only wish my master served in his field . '' `` I have been here since half-past four , Mrs Grigsby , with this chilt at my breast all the time . It 's three miles for me here , and the same back , and unless I get the first turn , how are my poor boys to find their dinner ready when they come out of the pit ? '' `` A very true word , Mrs Page ; and by this token , that last Thursday I was here by half-past eleven , certainly afore noon , having only called at my mother-in-law 's in the way , and it was eight o'clock before I got home . Ah ! it 's cruel work , is the tommy shop . '' `` How d'ye do neighbour Prance ? ''