A Pit-brow Lassie

A Pit-brow Lassie by John Mark Foster is about the romantic triumphs and tribulations of a couple in the coal mines. Excerpt: "In age, the girl seemed to be about nineteen or twenty. The work she was doing was light and cleanly, and in consequence, her hands and face were scarcely soiled. Noting these things, Luke found himself expressing mentally a wish that the new girl's work might never be harder or dirtier than that of «number shouting.»