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have you called them Grace?

yes mr.

Brittles.

Bertles.

call them again Grace.

yes mr.

Brittles.

is the pot a shot Grace?

it should be I bubbled it well up.

good very good.

we don't want to repeat a January 1st 1936 do we?

not after our New Year resolutions.

no mr.

Brittles.

Bertles.

one nighters mr.

Tucker.

one nighters.

the flotsam of the road of the highway.

two more regulars and we'll have a very happy family.

try the porridge mr.

Tucker.

good or not that's the stuff.

I shall not wait gentlemen.

I shall serve.

them that comes late and gets it cold shall have the eating of it cold.

due to the delay gentlemen I shall give you the

news for the day after we have all our grace.

for these and all thy mercies may the Lord make us truly thankful.

Oh Lord support us all the day long of this troublous life till the shades

lengthen the evening comes the busy world is

hushed the fever of life is over and our work done.

then Lord in thy mercy give us a safe lodging and a quiet

rest and peace at last through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

before I read the news for the day gentlemen I should like to say a word to

those who are passing through who will shortly as it were have gone on.

should you pass this way again gentlemen I would ask you to remember that the bed in

common with the tools of any other trade is a piece of capital equipment.

a tool used for 24 hours a day gentlemen cost

less than a tool used for only 12 hours a day.

consequently the product of mislabors cost less.

our beds are no exception to this rule.

indeed there are times when I regard myself as it were as the owner of a sleep factory.

the miserable sum which I am able to charge you in return for sleep is due to

the fact that our beds our tools are used 24 hours a day.

consequently breakfast is a seven o'clock prompt in order

that the night shift can occupy the beds vacated by you.

in such way shall we all benefit and be provided at a ridiculously small charge

with what I like to feel is a home from home.

the news for the day.

headlines.

fewest unemployed for six years.

means test of trusting for unemployed.

hostility passing.

friendliness of new board.

in the report of the unemployment assistance board the general conclusion as

expressed by Lord Rushcliffe the chairman is that the object of placing unemployment

insurance on a sound and lasting basis has been completely attained.

he said now last night about being off from school.

teachers rest.

teachers rest and mother's best.

is it today you said your granddad Toby's taking you out?

if I go.

why shouldn't you go?

he's mean is me granddad Toby.

mean?

he's mean.

hmm doesn't spoil you enough I suppose.

I didn't mean he was mean with me.

he's just mean.

bit like you then eh?

I'm not mean.

you're mean when it comes to taking your little brother out in his bram aren't you?

he's not me brother.

of course he's your brother.

he's me half brother.

and you're his half brother.

and what do two halves make eh?

they make a whole.

he likes you you know.

he's only a babby.

and you're a babby too sometimes I know.

me pigeons like me.

me granddad killed them and ate them.

well not all of them.

he'll breed again.

then he'll eat them again.

I'm not breeding pigeons for me granddad to eat.

Uncle George wouldn't have eaten me pigeons.

if he was starving he would have had to wouldn't he?

now come on take this round to your gran's and tell her it's that as I order.

there's a good lad.

finished that new book I gave you?

straight question.

straight answer.

comics.

that's all they read nowadays.

American trash sold secondhand on cash market.

can hardly read the words for the muck.

they've changed hands that many times.

I read them myself.

what bit of time I've got for a read.

can't say I have any great liking for them.

but I read them if they're there.

and there's no tells.

there's a library up the road.

well I get from there too.

S.L.M.

Dell and others.

and what's wrong with her?

you don't really want me to tell you do you?

it would only be your point of view if you did.

I'll read what suits me.

if you've got any better ideas then let's have them and

I'll read them and if I don't like them I'll tell you.

one man's meat is another man's poison they say.

who's setting young Sam against his granddad Toby?

muster is it?

not to my knowledge.

but likely.

doesn't like their influence on him you know that.

jealous of the brass you mean.

you belittle him too much Ethel.

oh I don't have the mind to appreciate such as muster is that it?

like I don't have the mind for good books or politics that put folks out of work.

it would have closed regardless of anything dad said.

shouldn't lend out the Georgians a go away.

he'll not waste his money on stamps for letters to me.

not if he's any sense he won't.

you miss him don't you?

I've no time on me hands for not having to clear up after him.

he's only gone to prove himself to me you know.

yes I know.

what your dad sent him off it were me.

what I said about him doing that.

I think to lose face if he comes back empty-handed.

I've closed door on him that's what I've done.

I've closed the door.

what's your present address then?

well I I'm not sure sir.

I could take you there.

take me there?

you must know what road it's on at the least.

Wellbeck Road or the one next to it.

we don't know the town.

Bertles Place?

that's it mr.

Bertles.

oh well you'd be all right there if you behave yourself.

he's a Christian gentleman.

do you keep your cap on in there?

no sir.

I'm sorry sir.

well I might have something for you.

you're used to shoveling coal of course but what sort of condition are you in?

most of the chaps who come in here have let themselves go.

given up on slack.

slackers.

I have kept in condition sir.

I could manage it.

well there were a couple of vacancies at a local foundry this morning.

wait over there will you?

he point you through it has he?

a bit.

I don't know what I told you.

I must have chipped about 60 lies at him.

who'd like that?

I know what I'd like to bloody chuck at him.

still he says he might have something for me.

where?

foundry.

shoveling coal.

I know it.

extra fettling machines.

your ears hop off if you don't get gas first.

the best thing you can do is to go back home.

I shall not be going home.

what run for it missus?

she died last year having a burn.

here have a fight.

no.

give up breathing if I could.

it's funny isn't it though how you can't just give up breathing.

Osborne.

that's me sir.

you local?

yes.

how long you been here?

four years.

live in?

lived downstairs with me mother.

she cooks.

you'll not see her though.

she never comes up.

she's got his measure.

used to be a daily for his mother.

this his own place is it?

he lived here with his mother.

when she died he started it as a place for gentlemen.

gentlemen?

never got on in though except old mr.

Travis that died last year.

his commercials at first and they stopped coming.

he used to take what he can get these days.

does he read news every morning?

he reckons on as it saves us buying a paper.

it's him like sound of his own voice.

he reads what he wants mine.

what he thinks we should hear.

puts his own bits in and out.

damn it's all bloody lies any road.

time he's been at it you can't tell one lie from another.

been here long?

a year or but.

left home about this time last year to look for work.

what a bloody sausage.

time I got here I was right down.

so stopped a bit then a bit longer.

getting a rut.

guess like home.

home?

was that bloody homesick first month I left.

yeah I mean you come to a place you stop a bit.

he gets it up chaps.

there's somebody to come back and talk to.

you'd have been as well off at home wouldn't you?

keep telling yourself you'll move on.

you know there's no work back home.

the longer you stay away the harder it gets to go back.

especially when you've not got what you set out with.

I'd go home if I was you.

I can't now.

wife died while I was away.

I should be dead a fortnight when I heard.

when I got back to our house it was somebody else living there.

mother had sold the furniture to pay for the funeral.

so she railed on me.

it's all my fault.

felt like signing on at a cemetery.

you moving on?

I'm waiting for my mate.

he's gone to labour.

I'm only fit for light work.

I have a chest it lessens your chances.

it's mainly agriculture around here.

apart from Appleby's foundry.

I had a good home though when I was working.

took some getting together did that furniture.

I'd have a scrap now and then but everybody does don't they?

like looking back on a good summer thinking on it.

aye like a good summer.

I should go back I think.

I think I should go back.

don't dawdle.

make your mind up and go.

the longer you wait the harder it gets.

I should be scuppered if we get them jobs though.

I shall have to take it shan't I?

George Baraclough I am.

lovely delicate touch mr.

Tucker.

a woman's touch.

still here mr.

Baraclough?

waiting for me mate.

it's not strictly allowed you know.

not strictly allowed.

premises should be vacated shortly after breakfast mr.

Baraclough.

facilities over and above are intended for regular by mr.

Tucker.

delicate yes.

my mother was a very coarse darling.

very coarse.

shall I wait outside then?

just past window just now your mate.

we'll be on our way then.

gentlemen of the road.

knights of the highway.

ready for off then?

there's a chance of a job.

both of us?

what doing then?

I'll tell you later.

we have to go back there again after dinner.

well I was thinking of going home.

empty-handed?

hundred and mile mile for now?

may have got now but I've learnt something.

there's no touch up see me.

it's work.

we have to take it where we can find it.

it's too long a road back there when out in your pocket.

did he say what time they were coming?

did who say?

Toby.

they're taking Sam to Garforth in the car aren't they?

today?

well today's half-closing.

he'd not be getting off if there were a chance of

bit of profit to be made wouldn't Toby would he?

I had him in mind it were tomorrow.

where's Sam?

he's outside up to his eyeballs in sludge.

call him for me.

I'd best call him this then.

he'd soon have nothing to do with me since I throttled his pigeons.

I thought you'd made it up with him.

I'm trying but if he shakes me enough to let her in I shall be back where I started.

Sam?

Polly?

where's Polly?

she's gone out to call young Sam.

ah well tell her there's half a rabbit there from Chopper.

nothing to pay.

come to that have we?

begging rabbits off Chopper.

if you don't like where it comes from master you don't have to eat it.

you will do though won't you?

you're as much at the mercy of your belly as the rest of us.

George were no mate of Chopper's.

owed you a favor did he?

he owed me a favor yes.

I helped lay out his mother last Sunday.

he ran off when I called him.

he's never done that before.

did you tell him what you called him for?

to be ready for his granddad Toby I said.

he doesn't want to go his granddad Toby does he?

he had the time of his life with him when he went last.

it's just been awkward.

he doesn't think it's worth the coming back.

coming back here?

no the coming back here to us.

to this bloody mutt.

Jack!

leave me be.

I've moved on.

it's not your fault you can't do for him what they can.

there was no talk of do for our Doran either was there?

was that not my fault?

and what have I not done for thee?

whose fault lies there?

I've not for anybody's good.

isn't that my fault?

it had to mean a different story if I'd done

what Toby did for himself and married well.

I said that badly.

that weren't what I meant.

what I meant was that Toby got through marriage what

other folk have to work for when they're allowed.

why should that put him above me Polly for it does you know.

when work's been there have I not worked and Mocky worked at that.

aye you've worked.

and is it right that it should be so that I should seem less than him?

no it's how things are that's all.

and is that what he's to learn then the lad?

that he can get through Toby what Toby got way out work.

is that to be his lesson in life inheritance?

I've mended it best I can.

I've had to shorten the cord so I'm not old as far.

you're not gonna get that boot read for me are you?

I'd like to know what you thought of it.

the lads would like it at school.

I made it when I read these.

these are school books.

school books?

they're about boarding school.

Bessonby and Co.

did I get this school?

he's got a car and a chauffeur this Bessonby.

he's a hon.

a hon is he?

what's a hon?

it's a title like sir.

it's a boarding school.

my granddad said I can go to a boarding school.

what's he talking about?

he said it because he'd eaten my pigeon.

he didn't mean it.

he said it because I said I was sick of living here after he'd eaten my pigeon.

don't you think it's time you forgot and forgave him for that pigeon?

people do eat pigeons you know.

didn't ask me did he?

sometimes you shouldn't have to ask.

he did it because he didn't want to go begging from anybody.

he thought you'd understand.

he didn't?

yes he did.

would you like to beg your food from other people?

my granddad wouldn't anyway.

wouldn't beg my granddad.

you mean he'd starve first?

he wouldn't let you starve though would he?

well would he?

no.

no and that's the way of it you see.

he's got a whale.

there's three.

come

on.

what's the reading there?

about Germany.

concentration camps.

what sort of camps?

it's been said they're like the labor camps we have over here.

where are they?

it's to be hoped not.

machine guns, barbed wire.

a place called Dachau this chap went to.

went round it with Stryker the Jew baiter.

says he came away ready to believe all the stories of beatings up and killings.

they won't let anybody out the place till they've signed

a form saying they'll not tell what goes on there.

seems a big price to pay for getting the trains to run on time.

what trains?

Hitler's.

what bugger?

him is going to get us back in work.

aye same chap that's banned trade unions.

he's vanished altogether now.

Sam?

no sign of him out there.

he was round Ethel's half an hour back.

am I allowed to ask him then if he wants to go with Toby?

if he did he'd have come when you called him before wouldn't he?

am I allowed to ask him?

aye if you don't believe me.

it's not a question of that.

if he wants he can go and welcome.

he was reading the comic you'd given him.

why?

it'll be one of them comics that saw given me for him.

did you read him?

comics?

at my age?

story about a chap called the on David Bassamby.

the prefect of St. Michael's.

has a car with a chauffeur who stops in the village.

they get up to all sorts of spiffing pranks.

beat the fags up.

flutters on the Gee-Gees.

rags in the door.

right up your street I'd have thought.

if you wanted to make a point get it made.

he said you told him he could go to a school like that.

I meant a board school.

that you told me about.

that that you said he'd go to.

and I got it from Watkins.

meaning what?

we don't know much about it.

wish I knew a lot more tonight.

I went to see Reverend at Top Church for the week.

he said that if I called on him tonight he'd have some news for me.

news?

as to whether we're likely to get him in.

it's a charity school dad.

it won't be like the comics.

he'd settle to it once he were there.

and if he didn't?

he's got three chances.

either he stops as he is.

if he does it's pit for him or not.

or we hand him over to Toby and his missus or he tries his luck at this place.

have you got anything better up your sleeve?

if he stops here I can keep on trying with him.

change the system will you?

you say he's got brains but he won't use them.

not ready to use them perhaps.

he'll wish he'd been ready to use them when he gets down yon pit.

what do you need brains down there then?

they get me on are you?

it's not just what he does is it?

it's what he gets out of it.

you get no we outwork.

I know that if you don't.

you're too bloody contented.

that's your trouble.

you'd have been gone from here else.

suppose I am contented suppose.

what more should I ask?

and you get nought for asking.

you work.

you work and you take.

and if you've got brains you use them to advantage.

why won't he?

I don't know what goes on in his mind.

first his dad going off then our Dora.

I couldn't understand it affecting him.

choose what I say to him.

you think I can't?

if he stirs himself and gets cracking later on will they give him a scholarship?

it's too late for that I've told you.

you told me and I thought I'd.

I can see no other way out.

there's worse ways than letting Toby out.

and what lesson is the lad to draw from it?

that he did what was best for him.

I don't happen to see it as best do I?

he says he doesn't want to go to Galforth with his granddad.

is that right lad?

don't want to go.

then go thou won't.

he likes you to wait.

do I?

before you sit down he likes us to wait for him.

I'm hungry.

you'll still be bloody hungry when you've had it and all so you might as well wait.

don't get under my feet mr.

Tucker.

I'm all behind.

can't we give you a lift love?

you what?

he don't like it.

he said you wouldn't do it at home so why should he help you?

did you help at home?

no.

did you?

no.

oh he's right I didn't.

sat at the table when I liked it at home.

I know.

just sat there and he come to me.

I left in a huff the news.

she said she was sick of the sight of me sitting round doing out.

I said but you'll be sorry when I've gone.

sorry you'll be when I've gone.

but it's I'm the one who's sorry.

I got that job the news.

stoker at foundry.

Alan's fixing up for us to stop here now.

should only stop for a week or two just get some brass in my pocket.

well they all say it happens.

I mean it.

we all do.

it never comes about.

I paid him for tonight.

he'd not take for a week.

he never does not at first.

just nightly at first.

so he can kick us out if his faces don't fit.

oh well something like that yeah.

you can't do that.

what?

he doesn't like it when you sit before he does.

he don't like what?

he doesn't like it when you sit at table before he comes.

he can lump it then can't he?

he'll chuck us out.

who's bloody paying?

you know there's only two other places round here

and one's half a dollar the other's three bob.

oh so that's what he takes less for is it?

for pleasure of playing Hitler.

that's what you think.

not because it's thick we're mucking the grubs not fit to feed pigs on.

we've no option.

I could leave.

it's only you're back when he's sort brass floating off.

well some have from time to time but there's always been somebody to take the place.

dribs and drabs.

have you never stood together?

you're working men aren't you?

well we was once on a day.

have you got somewhere to go back to?

of course I've got to do it.

well I've not and neither are most of these.

look we're settled here.

we're used to it.

and we've seen worse.

if he sinks so do we.

did you see Toby?

you were waiting at Topper's tree like you said.

was she with him?

he said he'd go back and fetch her.

what'd you tell him?

I said Sam had a cold.

I thought you might wrap it up.

he said he'd call again next week.

wanted to keep the door open did you?

no harm in that.

no no harm in that.

if it came that we couldn't manage no more.

we can manage without Toby.

it's somewhere he'd be cared for.

you keep on bringing it up don't you?

I don't want him left on his own in the world.

it's a cold place without somebody cares for you.

you can care too much.

you're thinking of Dora aren't you?

yeah.

you Wallace knew.

you knew but you rarely said.

you're not an easy man to argue with Jack.

and I love to see you warm with her and the pleasure

it gave you just looking at her when she were a bairn.

no Polly.

hurts does it?

she'll not leave me.

it comes into my mind sometimes the thought the picture of her in my mind.

empty I feel Polly.

that empty I wish it were life that would drain out of me.

it'll pass to the stage where it's bearable in your order.

you can care too much.

I know it now.

I know all that now.

now it's too late.

I can do with a bit of weight off.

where's it come from?

idleness.

they were like that when they were working.

shut up about me weight.

it's one thing you have a few weeks fat to live off there.

I'll not perish over neat.

what's up?

me leg.

what's up with it?

bit sharp when I bend me knee.

you like it longer?

just now that's all.

it'll pass.

it'd better.

eh?

why?

it'll be ripe in the morning.

it's passing off now.

I bet it saves him some of that.

street lamp.

corporation lighting.

charges for that if it could.

it takes less than to others so they say.

and it gives less for it.

you'll be a bed me now.

eh?

at home.

did sleep last night?

I slept.

I didn't.

did a bit of thinking.

oh I do a fair lot of thinking.

you going for it much?

not much.

keeps the mind lively does thinking.

no wonder I couldn't bloody sleep.

there's a lot to think about.

more you think more there is to think about.

there's no end to it.

it's a big bed to being on your own is that of ours.

when were you ever in it on your own?

never was.

never out of it either.

except that night that Ardour and Sam go up.

she'll miss me in bed any road.

she'll miss you never fear.

and when they tell her that's got work she'll think that's an hero.

of course she will.

what's the use of that though eh?

what's so good to be a hero when you're not there to enjoy it?

oh here's me breaking me neck not to wake you.

was it you who opened them curtains?

yes.

I thought I closed them once.

I wanted to watch the light from the cow covens.

shall I leave them open then?

yes please.

you look a bit lost in that bed.

do you feel a bit lost?

yes.

it's a pity we can't cut it in two.

did our Pat keep you awake?

yes.

it's her teeth.

she'll soon be over it.

you'd be worse off at your auntie Mae's with your Les.

he bawls all night.

there's a bed over my granddad Toby's shop that I'd want to live there.

he won't let us have it though.

he might.

he's mean.

what is all this mean business?

who says he's mean?

he is.

my dad would have come back if my granddad Toby had paid his fare.

who told you that?

granddad Barclough.

he told me.

I see.

and you believed him I suppose?

doesn't tell lies my granddad Barclough.

grown-ups don't tell lies.

do they?

no.

well no.

but they make mistakes.

how do you know he didn't make a mistake?

he didn't make a mistake.

wanted me to know about it.

like with me pigeons.

night night.

come on lad.

the night shift are waiting for their beds.

come on.

we've work to go to.

I'm coming.

what's up?

my knee.

it's worse than last night.

I'll give you a lift.

take hold of me hand.

leave me be.

what's up?

he can't bend his knee.

where abouts?

only bends in one bloody place.

try it again.

you're not pulling me out.

on me arm then.

come on take hold of me.

I can't.

I can't move.

I'm stuck.

I'm a fixture.

you can't afford to be a fixture.

now pull this end together and get up out of here.

I can't.

honest.

honest.

I can't.

where's the uncle George?

George?

you know where George is.

he's gone looking for work.

I mean where's he gone?

oh well I mean we don't know do we?

not till he writes to us.

what if he doesn't?

oh he'll write when he gets work.

if he doesn't get work?

he'll get work.

there's more to your uncle George than he's giving credit for you know.

what if he doesn't get work though?

I've told you he will.

he might not.

you're a right little Jeremiah aren't you?

who's Jeremiah?

he was a prophet.

he said thine own wickedness shall correct

thee and thy backsliding shall reprove thee.

who did?

he did.

Jeremiah did.

hundreds of years ago.

how do you know?

because me mam used to read him to us from

Bible every Sunday hoping me dad would overhear.

he was her favorite prophet.

if there's no work he'll come back won't he?

no not till he's got work he won't.

there's not much work is there?

no there's a shortage of work for sure.

why?

of course there is.

that's why.

it's the owners.

that's what me granddad says.

he says it's the owners.

he says the tech call where it's easy and leave rest and when it stops being easy

they close it down and spend the money on something else.

he says a lot of things your granddad.

it's not all gospel you know.

I'm washing today if you've got out.

oh yes I've got some nappies in the schoolery if you're boiling.

I'll go talk to her.

oh that's right.

you go and talk to your cousin Pat.

she likes me to talk to her.

she does as a matter of fact.

does what?

oh Pat.

like him to talk to her.

now you listen.

I wish he'd show as much interest in his baby brother.

he's like Jack.

he looks at him as if we were made of jelly.

well there's some excuse for it lad.

happened he's had his mind poisoned in that direction as well.

poisoned?

by who?

give you three guesses.

why?

why should Jack do that?

why did he have to tell the lad that Toby refused his daddy's fare to come home?

there's no wonder he wouldn't go out with him yesterday.

who says Jack told him that?

Sam does.

he told me last night.

well it's right what he said.

Toby did refuse to pay Harry's fare.

but did he have to tell him?

and like that?

Toby's got money on his side.

what's Jack got?

except to fight as he can.

but fight what Polly?

what's the battle?

what's at stake?

if he can't walk he can't get up can he?

there's a man waiting for that bed.

well then you'd better go and heal my mate hadn't you?

I beg your pardon?

you managed to feed this lot on a loaf and five fishes.

now's your chance to make the lame walk.

that's blasphemy mr.

Deakin.

you're the blasphemy mate.

a sob of cold porridge on God's waistcoat.

that's what you are.

a malingerer he is.

a what?

they cured labour exchange for Dole.

come people in time with his work they cured doctors for a note.

working a night shift mate?

he's burly.

he'll have to get out of here.

there's only three night shifts.

there's three empty beds next door.

you stop as you are.

I'm holding him back.

me mate.

been holding him back ever since we left home.

he'd have got more lifts if there'd not been two of us.

did best part away on Shanks's pony because of me.

you best go and get your porridge.

my father didn't mind.

is he carrying on about me?

he's said his bit.

how is it?

a bit looser.

not loose enough for you to work though.

no I think I'm playing old soldier don't you?

he does.

well he's bloody wrong.

it's how I look about that job.

I shall let her get off.

that'll be a non-starter me son.

we shall let her leave here now.

I'll see her when I get back.

Alan.

take care of this end.

aye.

what's that you're reading?

something of Dad's.

what he came back with last night?

it's about that school we talked on.

charity school?

ah charity school.

where did he get that from?

the vicar of North Skeleton sent for it.

he's a subscriber.

it's the rules and so on.

I see.

so that's what he's been up to.

thinks he'll get out of it that way does he?

out of what Mum?

doing what Toby should be let do.

provide for some.

he's never tried to get out of providing for him.

thinks this could be better for him that's all.

Dad's up to the same thing.

he'd turn to anybody but Toby.

it's been an obsession with him ever since our Dora died.

it's you that provides for us all anyway.

it's another pin that pricks him.

another thing he'd like off his mind.

he's just trying to do what he thinks is best as he sees it.

is it what you think is best as you see it?

best of a bad job I think.

that even?

I don't know it's maybe a gamble.

has he asked you what you think?

no not straight out.

nor is he likely to.

he'll go his own road as always.

he'll send him off without my blessing.

as much against it as that?

and more.

he might get a better chance there.

his education I mean.

you think he will?

I don't know.

I don't know enough about it.

there's no future for him at our place.

I know that.

doesn't it tell you in there?

there's things in these rules I don't like.

such as what?

well...

the guardians of the child shall resign to the committee the control and management

of the child together with authority to place the child out to trade or service.

guardians shall be allowed to visit children only if they come clean in person

and dress, conduct themselves in an orderly manner and do not under any

circumstances give the children any kind of eatables.

it's institution language.

corridors and the stink of stale vegetables.

and you don't get out of school at the end of the day.

you're in it all the time.

education isn't everything.

well there are other things to be considered.

that's true.

she'd turn in her grave if she thought he had to go down pit though.

that's what dad's thinking.

he cares man.

aye and that covers a multitude of sins.

he could only see his dad in Sam at one time.

now our Dora's dead he can see only her.

he could smother him with caring.

then up and Sam would be best away.

it's all been a way for him up to now.

his dad gone and Dora and moving from one house to another.

to be settled is what he needs now.

he needs his roots Frank.

aye hurt your leg?

it was bad when I started out.

here I get to own better it seems.

still not so clever though.

if you're hungry you've got to eat.

you've to eat to live.

that's what pigeons is for.

as well as for keeping.

thanks mate.

hey what is it now then?

are you hungry grandad?

aye well seeing as I haven't had my dinner I suppose I am.

are we good out for dinner?

your gran will find her something for you.

I've brought something.

you've what?

I've brought something.

one of yours?

aye.

it's died has it?

I killed it so we could eat it.

give it here.

will my gran cook it?

aye she'll cook it.

will you give it to her?

aye I'll give it to her.

hey we do us best for you you know that don't you?

yes grandad.

he brought us this for us dinners.

he killed it himself.

needs to learn it.

what's he learning Jack?

that it's a hard bloody world.

let Toby have him.

aye let Toby have him.

let him be swaddled and coddled and let him be led to believe

there'll always be somebody to pick him up when he falls.

it's that sort of world you want isn't it?

I've always taken it as such from what you've said.

what you want and what you're likely to get are two different things aren't they?

you've come to believe that have you?

them's the facts I face.

I've never faced no other.

except you face up to them.

how can you fight?

let him learn that.

let him learn what it feels like to fall.

and let him be educated in process aye.

and let him use his education to shape some sense out of life.

and not be content with his lot in it like some are.

like me you mean?

if cap fits bloody wear it.

that's fine talk that is.

you keep out of this Polly.

she's got a right to say what she thinks.

same as anybody else dad.

a man's world it might be for what value it is but she's got to live in it as well.

aye the woman's vote.

that's what puts your bloody Baldwin's in.

and your McDonald's who put them in.

you for one.

and you for another.

the best of a bad bunch.

that's the choice we get.

cap in hand.

there's the picture of a generation of working men for you.

cap in hand.

eyes on floor in front of Toby and his ilk.

in front of your own.

you'd go against everybody wouldn't you?

you against everybody.

I if need be.

nobody knows best but you.

no way out but yours.

tell me you're better and I'll listen.

you've poisoned that lad against Toby already.

who told you that?

never mind who told me.

sufficient that I know.

what's he to do if this other door's closed against him?

choose whether I think it's right or not.

it'll not be closed against him.

you can't be sure of that.

I've been told it'll not.

form's gone in.

I've been told there'll be a place for him.

aunt Ethel?

what's putting straw on ground for aunt Ethel?

oh look it's got concussion at pits.

it's to stop noise of carts and such.

so don't you go shouting round there.