NEWBORN ON THE TYNE. [By R P. Leitch.] 



CHAPTEK III. 



NEWBURN AND CALLERTON LEARNS TO BE AN ENGINEMAN. 



ON quitting their humble home at Dewley Burn, the 

 Stephensoii family removed to a place called Jolly's 

 Close, a few miles to the south, close behind the village 

 of Newburn, where another coal-mine belonging to the 

 Duke of Northumberland, called " the Duke's Winnin," 

 had recently been opened out. 



One of the old persons in the neighbourhood, who 

 knew the family well, describes the dwelling in which 

 they lived as a poor cottage of only one room, in which 

 the father, mother, four sons, and two daughters lived 

 and slept. It was crowded with three low-poled beds. 



