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Well, it says here on notes, study the bugger if you don't believe me.

I might as well be on bloody dough.

I'll go and win it, will you?

You'll get your bloody money.

Let somebody do his task.

I'm disputing, it's taken away.

Sixpence for lamb, sixpence for union, and ninepence for check.

Wayman, here, see for yourself.

That was a good try, that's good, you know.

Come and see, there you are.

I'm 18 pence short of this.

Better than last week.

We were clutched last week.

Come in, Ben.

No, I'm 18 pence short of this, bloody no.

Then there's better off than I am.

Now fivepence will have given her the low wages.

Bloody fivepence.

Come on, lass, come on.

Here's a good wedge, here, here.

Go on, go on.

Come in.

Come in, Aunt Ethel.

But I promised Sam I'd take him to his Grandad Wilson's.

He usually gets sixpence, so he's keen.

You'll be back late.

I don't know, I can be well.

If he rush off, it looks a bit, you know.

It's the last bus sometimes.

Go on.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow?

Tomorrow's fine.

Aye.

Aye, well, that's all right.

You sound as if you thought it wouldn't be.

I wasn't... Well, it is what I said.

And then... I want to see Harry's dad about a solicitor for a divorce.

He'll help.

His dad.

He said... if I needed money.

Well, it's less or no divorce.

They don't pay for that on means test.

Will it take long, a divorce?

I don't know.

There's been nobody I could ask.

Now, with the dad wanting to know, I was thinking that way.

It's what they want?

A divorce from him?

Yes.

It's what I want.

Ethel, I'm home.

Ethel, I'm home.

So I see.

Have you finished your porridge?

Yes.

Well, take that dripping in bread next door to your

grandma's and finish it off there before it melts.

Temperature's rising in here.

Well, ask her if she's got a slice or two of bread to lend me.

And have you got your coat?

There they are.

Off you go, then.

Oh, and say goodbye to your Uncle George.

From the look of him, he might not be here when you get back.

Bye, Uncle George.

So long.

Don't talk to me like that in front of him.

There was some explanation due.

Explanation for what?

For grown-up behaviour.

Ethel, I'm home.

Never you come cocking the midden with me, my lad.

I saw my mum take too much of that from me dad to take it from you.

I knew your mum and all come to that.

I've had nothing to eat yet.

Well, it's not surprising, is it?

You've not been in the house two minutes.

Go and get yourself under the tap.

I'll eat mucky.

You'll eat cleaner, not at all.

I'm off upstairs to finish the bed.

When you've come out from under the tap, let me know.

Come on, young Fred.

Off to school, will you?

Is there no house then, Auntie May?

Oh, give you no house.

You've just eaten our Alan's breakfast.

Get your garner before he finds out.

Our Ruby and Bert spent up at Jubilee last night.

Not a crummet house.

I've a job offered.

Where then?

Mrs. Ollens.

Looking after the kids in the house when she's in the shop in outnights.

You know what outnights means, don't you?

She never brings them home, they say.

Oh, aye.

I'll give her that.

She keeps her own doorstep clean, for the kids' sake.

How much?

Seven and six for me keep.

She asked me, Dad, and you said I'd be willing.

And are you?

There's eight of us in the house.

The lads are all lumped in together.

I'm just one taking up a bed on me own.

You should be wed.

That's what you're saying, isn't it?

Your Alan's not going to wed me, Mae.

Has he said that?

No, he's not said.

Oh, well, you don't know, do you?

Yes, I do.

He just won't live here, that's all.

He's waiting for a house.

That and his exams.

Oh, Mae, the yard never sees me unless I come round.

It's not easy to come when you don't feel wanted.

Ah, they're all like that, Aunt Lasleg.

Just you come round when you feel like it.

It's her.

You know who I mean.

Dora?

You took an interest in her for our Polly's sake, that's all.

Oh, Mae.

Mum!

Eileen.

Alan?

I'll wash your yard.

Not at this time of year, you won't.

We'll get out of your way.

With the school collection next Friday, we're going to take something.

We shall find you something.

Buns and things.

So you get something to take.

Give that to your Aunt Ethel and man that clock.

Fruit and such.

We shall see to it, your mother and me.

Off with you.

They take same as to others.

They'll take what they can.

Not more, not less.

Some have to take more, Jack, for them that can take nothing.

That's how it is.

You want to get shaved before I wash up?

Why force you to shave, Polly?

You know why.

Where am I going?

On, lad.

Just on.

You never give up, do you?

Only because you don't.

I took Ruby's dog for a walk.

They should walk their own bloody dog and feed it.

They should, but they don't.

I bought you paper.

You've got apples in your cheeks.

This time I got shaved.

I'm gone.

You wouldn't have come in here if she hadn't, would you?

She's used to half-naked, many-touse.

She's more than you can say for Dora Wilson.

Dora?

She's a collier's lass.

How many men's backs has she ever rubbed with sake?

What's Eileen said, then?

You're being talked about.

Eileen and me?

You and Dora.

Last Friday night at Jubilee, Eileen's brother saw the pair of you.

He asked her if it was all off between you.

What did she tell him?

A coward as well, then, Alan.

Wanting her to do it for you.

Or is it shame?

Shame?

For what you've taken on that rag rug at nights when I've been early to bed.

For what you've taken and won't pay for.

I know all about rag rugs, you know.

It's grand laying on a rag rug with a good fire warming your bum.

It's different in the morning when it's out and has to be lit again.

She's twenty-seven.

How many lassies of her age are there round here that aren't wed?

That are likely to...

Get in the scullery.

Let me get at their back.

Get me over that slop stone.

If Dora Wilson had wanted you, she'd have had you

ten years back instead of that other flyby knight.

I was seventeen to her twenty-one.

Knew what went on, you know.

Give all the man a waltz.

Shut up.

She was too fancy for thee then and she's too fancy for thee now.

A provider for her bairn.

That's what she's looking for.

And so would any other woman in her position.

Oh, go easy.

She's chosen one in debt.

Debt?

Three years in debt to Eileen, you are, and you know it.

I'm ashamed when I see it.

You've got that much grace, I'll grant you.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'll come back.

Oh, you've seen a collier's back before, Dora Wilson, I'm sure.

If ever you thought what it takes to get it clean, this is your chance to learn.

Take hold.

You'll have to do it for your own lad one of these days.

I see you've lost your appetite.

I'm eating, Muckie.

Not in this house.

I'll stop it till I do.

Well, they'll lay thee out on the table then, won't they?

That worm's late, Muckie.

So the sooner you stop sulking.

I'm not sulking.

I'm just sick of not knowing whether I've summoned her or not.

Two short weeks in a row, just sat there waiting to be taken on.

You'll be short on spends then.

How much, George?

Penny?

Tuppence?

Threepence farthing?

I'll get the wages.

This'll manage.

Aye, and I shall have to put up with thee managing, shan't I?

So I want to see what you manage on.

I want your wage, George.

All of it.

I'll give thee thy wage when I've checked me spends.

I shall give you your spends when you give me your wage.

It's that Jacky Littlewood's missus, isn't it?

By God, he started someone on this street when

he handed his full wage over, did he, young chap?

He didn't hand it over, George.

Clarice put her foot down.

Ah, and now he's a laughingstock.

Well, that's not seeing my wage.

So they can shove a cork in it.

They can shove a cork in it, they can.

No point in making a long hard road of it, George.

We'll get there in the end.

Ah, but we shall not, I knows.

I can drop it now.

Just one of them little things we've got to have out.

Been from one thing to the other.

And we've got this on the agenda.

We shall get there in the end.

I shall not move from here, you know.

I shall not move a bloody inch.

I'm hungry, do you understand?

I'm hungry.

Poygen easy, Jameson.

Got out with a spice summit.

Hapenny.

We'll go out at Mrs. Holland's.

I'll watch out for Jameson, fobby.

There, that'll show her.

She didn't think I would, did she?

She's got funny ideas about things.

Things to do with you, you mean?

She's me mam.

Hold on, I've left a spot on the back of your neck.

Can't let her see that.

No, not now, not here.

She's upstairs, she won't come in.

I'm still married, Alan.

Like getting a divorce.

It might take years.

Can I come with thee this afternoon to Cuddy, just for a ride?

No, I promise, Sam.

Look, I wouldn't let it go as far as this.

Not if I hadn't thought there was a chance for us.

The manager called me into his office yesterday.

They want me for a shot-firer.

At Skeleton?

No, at Cuddy.

There'd be a colliery house, that knows.

We'd have somewhere to live.

Perform a divorce?

I said the senate could take years.

Houses at Galway, not here.

There's a woman in the square who's not married to her man.

When she goes out, you'd never see her speak or be spoken to.

They live in each other's pockets in this place.

We'd be that bit away.

And young Sam, he'll go down no pit, not if it's up to me.

And it wouldn't be forever.

Shall we, then?

I'm four years older.

I've been looking at two these last few months.

Nay, that's not.

Day I got me first longings, I jumped them for a year.

I were man enough for you at 17 if you'd have taken me.

Come here with thee.

Wilt thou?

So that's that, is it?

And thee dad had a shop at Goodie, didn't he?

And so when does that?

And he went off to Canada with another woman, didn't he?

And I'll tell thee somewhere else.

I tell thee, saw thee man with Ellen Dakey, back at Gospornick, Longgrass.

Back at Gospornick, Longgrass!

George?

Eh?

Oh,

I'm still waiting, Ethel.

So am I, lad.

So am I.

I shall not change me mind.

No, me neither.

How to stop you getting your own, though?

I'll have it served up if I wait till doomsday.

I've been working.

I'm sorry you feel like that, George.

I don't like to see you hungry.

Who brings money in?

You do, I don't deny.

And who spends it for greater part?

I do.

I spend it on food and rent and such like.

And if there's no money, then there's no food and there's no house, is there?

No, that bloody well isn't, Ethel.

No, and some weeks are worse than others, we know.

Ah, and this is one of them.

Does the know how much I've got left for spent this week?

How much have you got left?

Ah, better be telling, wouldn't it?

Yeah, and how much last week and the week before.

You had a good week then, didn't you, George?

How do you know I had a good week?

From the time you spent down at the bloody club.

Ah, and that's what it's all about, isn't it?

Well, have I ever stopped you going?

By God, I'd like to see you try my God, I would.

I earn me bit of pleasure.

What's up, do you reckon?

He's putting his foot down, and about bloody time and all.

Thy wages.

Not mine, George, thine I want.

I've done right by thee, now thou do right by me.

No, George, not yet.

Me bloody dinner, Ethel!

Give me the rest, then.

Who's master here?

Well, shout a bit louder, George, and then

up and your dad will hear you being master.

He'd like that, would master.

Oh, I've had my belly full of masters.

Want a drag?

I daresn't.

I shall get a belt if I'm copped.

Me aunt Ethel might smell me breath.

Did the uncle George land thee that time, when he copped us?

No, but me granddad would if he'd let on about me.

Me dad knows.

He don't bother me upset.

When he thinks I'm pinching his, isn't it time I went home for the dinner?

How about you?

No.

Me man's gone out today.

Me dad's on shift.

If I'd another eight, me, I could get a doorstep from Mrs. Holland's.

I've six months to come for me granddad Wilson.

She don't get ticked to kids, don't Mrs. Holland.

And me mam owes her any road.

She's a backpayer, me mam.

She owes her her own skeleton.

She's famous for it.

I'll go now.

I'll see if I can bring you some more.

Have you heard what he said?

Jameson.

He don't want to take any heed of Jameson.

His mam's a backpayer, don't know.

She's even more famous than me mam.

What's it mean, Fred?

Back against the law like long grass?

Well, it means... it means I'm sicker than us.

Grown-ups?

Well, such a grown-up, I'd say.

Than us.

It's gone quiet, Jack.

Aye, and they'll be resting before the next round.

Take them boots off that table.

Bloody shut!

Only decent pot we have.

You did it, not me.

You chucked it that way.

Only decent thing in the house.

Eight year married and we kept filing.

We had dear Scarborough four year back.

Half a dozen, four dozen of pot we had.

You were due to let me have two of them, weren't you, weren't you?

Get out of my sight.

We were going to... Get out I said!

I don't care for thee at all.

Aye.

Well, now we know, don't we?

Right, I will.

I'll go.

I will.

You've made me a laughing stock.

It was the first day we was wed.

You'd think I were a little lad instead of a grown man, the way you've treated me.

Can't go into the club without somebody making a joke of it.

And sorting the out, that's you, George.

Started off on the wrong foot there, lad, and by God I did it all.

You should have been blessed with one of our doorers, one of that kind.

At least I'm leaving no bairns behind me.

I'm off then.

Well then, George.

Well then, Billy.

I've come home.

What was it?

I was putting his foot down.

They try you, don't they?

It's me, isn't it?

No.

Having to have me and Sam.

No, he loves having young Sam around.

You should have your arse on your own.

No, there's more to it than that, lass.

If ever you get rid of your mother, don't you ever marry a collie?

When he was on dole, I couldn't get him out from under

me feet, and now he's back at work and I never see him.

He comes home, he fills his belly and off up to the club.

I think he'd seen enough of them without seeking his own kind the minute he gets up.

What's it like down there, do you reckon?

I used to wonder that, seeing me dad come home.

He'd never talk about it, you know.

George likes it, you know.

I know.

He can't wait to get back on the face.

It's not just money.

When he was first working out face after we got

married, he had a kind of sway to him when he walked.

He's full of himself, you know.

And he's not mastering it over me, cos I'll not have it.

Where's he gone?

He's gone back home to his mam.

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I think I'm going to go with Alan Deakin.

Go with him?

They want him for a shot-firer, they'll give him a house.

You'll marry?

When we can.

You'll not wait?

I've wasted ten years, I'm wasting no more.

Living together unwed in Skeleton will make your life a misery, lass.

It'll be in Galwick.

I even saw things travel.

I'll have a home.

Would you not care for Alan then?

Only a home, is it?

I like him.

I like him well, I'll do no better.

I'll do no better.

Well, that'll happen, you're right.

Never bothered me to be talked about.

He's going with the lass, you know.

It's me he wants.

You were such a soft little thing when you were a lass.

If I learnt too late, you'd take what you couldn't get.

What will he say?

Your dad?

Oh!

He's the man of the house.

And no dinner ready.

Still, we'll soon see to that.

Where's me uncle George?

He's at your gran's.

School all right?

All right.

Well, that sounds keen.

Don't you like it there?

I liked it better at Cuddy.

Hoping we might go back there sometime.

Back to Cuddy?

Oh, near enough.

You never know.

What you been doing today?

I've been back at Gospel Hall at Long Grass.

Oh, is that where you play?

No.

I went there.

Back at Gospel Hall at Long Grass.

I'll help you, Aunt Etta.

So, you're not going to stand for union next June?

I didn't think you would once you got your shot-firing certificate.

It'll be deputy next, I suppose.

I have me certificate.

It's up to them.

I didn't think you took it just for a chance at management.

Not from what you used to say to me.

I shall get less than I did on face, Jack.

I didn't mean money.

I meant promotion.

It's security.

And a house.

A house?

You got a bloody house.

I mean, for me and Dora.

You and Dora?

I don't understand you.

For us to live in.

I see.

So, that's what it's come to.

We're going to see her father-in-law after dinner to see if he's had his address yet.

She wants to get a divorce started.

So, the one's to wed our Dora.

Aye, I do.

You're not against it?

I'm weighing it up.

She could do better, I know.

She could do a lot worse, you know.

You have a fair long wait in front on you, you know that, don't you?

Two year and more happen.

We don't want to wait, Jack.

Oh, I don't suppose you do.

What do you mean, lad?

She sees it like I do.

Life's too short, Jack.

Live with her own word.

If that's how it's to be, aye.

My lass a catwoman.

Oh, no.

Not like that, Jack.

Not like that, Jack?

What the bloody hell else you call it?

Get out of my sight before I do something I regret.

You come here.

It's up to her.

She'll hear me first, by God, she will.

Over my dead body, my lad.

She's in this world because of me.

I give her life, not thee.

And I'll answer for life's shortcomings, not thee.

That takes a lot on this end, Jack.

I know what I take on.

I take on what I'm prepared to account for.

There comes a time when somebody else has got summat to offer.

I offer a stone and a corset bread.

I offer a stone and I call it a bloody stone.

She deserves summat better.

She deserves summat better than you can offer her.

A gut full of misery, that's all you've got to give.

A marked woman for the rest of her life.

What else is there for her, Jack, that's better?

What else?

He's right, Jack.

What else is there for her?

Sam, I'll set your dinner in the schoolroom.

Yes, all right.

Well, come on, then.

I told him.

Your dad.

Took it badly, did he?

Ah, he did.

Made you think again, has he?

No, he'll not do that.

I think no worse of you if you do.

I should think a lot worse of me son.

Why?

It'd be a poor offering as couldn't stand for a bashing off your dad's tongue.

An offering, is it?

One as I never thought you'd take.

What if I'd said no?

Nowt I could have done about that, was there?

Would you not have tried to persuade me?

Nay.

Why not?

I told thee.

I never thought you'd take me.

I'd maybe not have asked even.

Had it not been like it was.

Did you ask Eileen Brady when you first went out with her?

I asked her if she'd go out with me, aye.

Why would you not ask me then?

For fear as I'd hear thee say no.

And yet you'd stand up to me dad.

Different that.

Did you care for Eileen Brady?

I cared.

Sometimes you come together for comfort.

Aye, comfort.

Small comfort you'll get from me as I am.

I look to give it, not to take.

You won't comfort yourself one day, who will you turn to then?

Thee.

Or do without.

And Eileen Brady?

Who is there for Eileen Brady?

We might well look away from one another.

So, that's how it's to be then?

I can do no other.

I feel as I feel.

I can do no other.

I can do no other.

Happen that's how Sam's dad felt when he went off.

And happen one day Eileen Brady'll find a chap

that he'll be spoken for but she'll take him.

For her comfort.

For that she can do no other.

We...

pray on each other.

And call it love.

Jameson!

What's it mean?

Mean?

What?

It's the bucket that goes below it on grass.

It's not gone, is it?

No, we'd have seen it.

Oh, there's Sam.

I promised him a penny.

I'll go and to stop.

I'll odd it if it comes.

Sam!

Here's a penny.

There's more when I get back from your Grandad Wilson's.

Don't you want it?

No.

What is it?

You're going to see my Grandad Wilson.

You promised you'd take me.

I will next time.

I've got to do what's best for us now.

My Grandad Wilson told me my dad's coming home.

Oh, take it, Sam.

Bus is coming.

Sam!

Bell's gone!

Sam!

Sam!

They'll get keen from Sleepy Williams.

Sam!

Sam!

I'll stand up from there one day and a step will be sticking to the arse.

Get this ending, sir, and I'll give you a game of drafts.

How did Jack take it?

Quiet.

He couldn't want it less than I do, Polly.

I don't mean anything against your daughter.

He says he'll not have it.

But he'll not cross her if she digs her eels in.

He never has done.

He always used to say he'd never let her marry a collier.

But he would never put her to test because she never went with one.

He's spoiled her for to be a collier's lass.

Aye, he has, I suppose.

Happening to have been better spoiling thee a bit more.

Oh, he's spoilt me in his time.

Oh, aye, they do when they want so much.

Then when you've now left to give, they wonder what you're waiting for.

Hello, love.

Me.

Mrs. Barraclough.

Eileen.

How's your brother's leg?

On and off.

Must be a wooden one.

Aren't you stopping?

Oh, no.

No, I'll get back.

It's only three doors up, so if I set off now, I'm bound to be back before it's dark.

Two visits in one day?

I've brought back some of the things he gave me.

I'd rather he had them back.

And I've told Mrs. Olden not to hit that job.

And hitting him off like that, after what you've done for him.

It's all right, I'm not going to give you a sermon.

He's got a lot of memories for you, this room.

Hasn't he?

You've given him everything that women like us have got to give.

Except for a lifetime slaving and fighting muck.

Haven't you?

Don't turn away from me.

Don't be ashamed.

I'm not.

I'm not ashamed.

I'm glad I've had a bit of something out of life I'll not forget.

No.

You'll not forget.

I felt like that about a chap once.

He didn't last more than a summer, but... I can remember how I felt.

I've thought about it sometimes.

His life's dragged on.

If they could take such feelings from us, then we'd have an out.

They could do what they like with us.

He feels like that about her.

No, he doesn't.

He just thinks he does.

Chaps.

They're just like soppy nail.

Then take that back for a start.

Me?

Well, if that doesn't, I shall.

Let it be.

Take it back.

I said leave it be.

Right.

A right exciting game, that turned out to be.

Have you brought your wage, will you?

Aye.

Five pence.

Who's the one to lend?

Five pence.

Well, she's got rest.

You'd better get it back, then.

If you're to stop here and eat...

and sit in front of the fire with the feet stinking.

What's up with thee?

I'm sick of thee.

What have I done?

Why didn't you tell me Alan Deakin had been made shot-fiery?

But I know.

What difference does it make to me, any road?

If you'd shaped yourself, you could have been on union committee by now.

You could have made yourself useful instead

of spending half your life on your backside.

You could have been on council, even if he wrote about you.

Not interested in council.

I never have been interested in council, nor union, neither.

I'm sick of politics.

Sick on them, are you?

What do you know about politics?

What do you know about us?

Jack.

Aye, Jack, that's right, Jack.

Don't lather him, Jack.

He's too simple to know any better.

I'm not being called simple.

I had thee trained better, and then I married you on.

She puts talk like that in the mouth to poison me.

You know what it cost your mother and me to bring you three up?

That's what politics is.

You turn your back on politics, and you live in muck for the rest of your life.

You think you've had it bad.

Well, we've had it worse, lad.

Your dad's right, George.

What's he going on at me for?

I've said nowt.

You've had no bairns to bring up.

That's one thing worse.

What bairns have you and the madam brought up?

You shouldn't take it out on him.

He loves you, Jack.

Aye, and I lubed him to fill his belly and warm him.

That's the love we're allowed.

Iron his love.

Sorry, I'm late.

Is he gone?

Five minutes, sir.

He's supposed to cast at ten.

You look fed up.

Been worrying how you'd got on, that's all.

Toby says he'll get me a solicitor.

Has he got an address for him yet?

Ferrari?

No.

No, not yet.

So we're not further forward, then?

Let him come.

He'll write for money like us not.

It's a wonder he's not already.

It never bothered him to ask for money.

He'd have thought he'd have written something to young Sam.

I wished he would, in a way.

Happened to tell him what I can't seem able to.

That his dad's gone for good.

I suppose we have to get that cast to us.

It's the best part of an hour, otherwise.

I don't like that walk across pit fields at dusk.

You feel the stacks coming down on you.

Mountains with trees, there'll be one day, my dad used to say.

With little white houses for us to live in.

Alan.

Alan.

We're in news.

We've been sent together in Cuddy.

Who is it?

The girl at Skeleton Gazette.

She's famous for it.

Is Sam home?

He's not back from school yet.

He hasn't been to school?

Not been?

No.

He didn't come in after dinner.

He stayed out at the yard.

Eileen's done a bit of shopping for me.

Tea's not long made.

I'll get some more water.

Been to Cuddy?

Aye.

What's them?

Yours?

Nay.

I'd rather you had them back.

You know why?

I should have spoken.

You did in a way.

I should have said.

I've treated you badly.

You didn't mean to.

I know that much.

You're a good lass, Eileen.

Am I?

Well, don't start saying I'm too good for you.

Don't say that.

We don't have to go into all that, do we?

Anywhere I've got to go.

I've got to see Mrs. Holland about a job.

A job?

Looking after her kids in the house.

They can't have me at home much longer with the lads growing up.

But then you know all about that, don't you?

I never thought to let them down like this.

Take care of yourself.

What did you have for your dinner?

I'd have had a doorstep only.

I wouldn't have any shots.

She's locked to call all the Skype.

Sutcliffe, let me have one.

What's this doing here?

They come to tell us young Sam's not been at school today.

By God, it's in the blood, isn't it?

Jack, we don't know.

I know.

I bloody know.

He's a chip off that bloody block that went to Canada.

That's what he is.

Dora and I, George, have gone looking for him.

She's back?

They've gone to Pitfields, down by that side of the allotments.

Jameson were plaguing him.

Jameson?

Tommy Jameson, from Atherkin Street.

He told him... Told him what?

You'd better tell us, lad.

He told him he'd seen his mum.

With Alan Deakin.

Back at Gosport Hall.

Ain't long, lass.

Sam!

Sam!

You go on up there.

I'll nip down here and there.

Dora!

You've never done.

I grow up.

Get wed.

Have kids.

You've never done.

Dora!

Oh, there's somebody to provide for.

Aye.

And when the bellies are full...

and they've forgot what it cost to fill them... and they don't have to scrap no more.

What then?

What then, mister?