“Yes lass, what yer called,”
“Bloody Kid usually.”
“I’ll call you Nicola on account you got no knickers, Knickerless get it?”
She shot him a glance that could have killed at twenty paces. “Very well I shall test this myself, when that strumpet has finished,” the Mother Superior announced. George Stephenson was woken by Ernie Higglethwaite sounding Scramsby Main Colliery Hooter as women passed and he peered from the window to see the procession still a mile away. “S,Seven h,hundred and Thirty Six pounds Eighteen Shillings and three Pence three farthings.” he stammered. “Put the clevis pin through to fix it to connecting rod like so, ” He continued, “then fit new split pin to hold it, ease it through two full turns to make sure she can take it all and then turn steam valve and ease it over the dead centre like this.” he turned the flywheel.
