pits Quotes

“Even if I turn back and run all the way, I can never get home before Papa! He’s going to take me out of school and make me go down the pits.”

″‘Why were you so late?’ Sara asked Willie. ‘I was watching the wild horse from Sable Island unloading. It’s a terrible thing to make wild horses go down the pits.‘”

″‘What’s wrong with the pits?’ His father’s face grew red with anger. ‘We’re a family of colliers, me and my father before me, and now John.‘”

“Soon, it would be dark. ‘Even if I turn back and run all the way, I can never get home before Papa! He’s going to take me out of school and make me go down the pits.‘”

“Neither could I forget what I had read of these pits—that the sudden extinction of life formed no part of their most horrible plan.”

“A robin puffed its breast on a rose tree and squeaked at him. Barney suddenly wasn’t sure that he believed in Stig himself. It wasn’t a Stiggish day, like yesterday when he had fallen down the pit.”