was warm." Witness therefore took two pairs of translated boots
{18} to sell at the shop, but she could only get 14D. for the two
pairs, for the people at the shop said, "We must have our profit."
Witness got 14lb. of coal, and a little tea and bread. Her son sat
up the whole night to make the "translations," to get money, but
deceased died on Saturday morning. The family never had enough to
eat.--Coroner: "It seems to me deplorable that you did not go into
the workhouse." Witness: "We wanted the comforts of our little
home." A juror asked what the comforts were, for he only saw a
little straw in the corner of the room, the windows of which were
broken. The witness began to cry, and said that they had a quilt
and other little things. The deceased said he never would go into
the workhouse. In summer, when the season was good, they sometimes
made as much as 10S. profit in the week. They then always saved
towards the next week, which was generally a bad one. In winter
they made not half so much. For three years they had been getting
from bad to worse.--Cornelius Collins said that he had assisted his
father since 1847. They used to work so far into the night that
both nearly lost their eyesight. Witness now had a film over his
eyes. Five years ago deceased applied to the parish for aid. The
relieving officer gave him a 4lb. loaf, and told him if he came
again he should "get the stones." {19} That disgusted deceased, and
he would have nothing to do with them since. They got worse and
worse until last Friday week, when they had not even a half-penny to
buy a candle. Deceased then lay down on the straw, and said he
could not live till morning.--A juror: "You are dying of starvation
yourself, and you ought to go into the house until the summer."--
Witness: "If we went in we should die. When we come out in the
summer we should be like people dropped from the sky. No one would
know us, and we would not have even a room. I could work now if I