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arrived at his sweetheart's house before the family had 

 retired, the parents would go to bed and leave the couple 

 in possession without question or chaperone ! 



But these idylls of casements with diamond panes were 

 surely more often played at farmhouses than at cottages, 

 where few daughters could boast a bedroom to themselves. 



As for bed-linen, a friend of mine, Reuben Streeter by 

 name, of Ewood, tells me he can remember sleeping under 

 sheets " as coarse as a wagon cloth." As a boy of eleven 

 he was made to attend to the stabling of six cart horses 

 and help with the ploughing for a wage of is. a week and 

 his food. That was in the 'sixties. By 1872 his mind and 

 aching body were ripe for the teachings of Joseph Arch. 



