:08:02
Oysters, pickle. Pity I'm not hungry.
I'll just have a piece of that bread.
:08:10
I don't like that kind of fun.
Tha shouldn't mock good food.
:08:14
You're lucky to get anything
with your father clever like he is.
:08:19
Isn't every man who can scare miners
about a bit of water,
:08:23
get them to strike against the unions.
:08:25
Thank you.
:08:27
My father wasn't so clever,
nor my grandfather. They was just men.
:08:32
Master Pit commanded, men obeyed.
:08:35
They were daft enough
to think of their own families.
:08:39
Your father's cleverer than that, Hughie.
:08:42
He can see through solid coal
to the floodwater t'other side of it.
:08:47
Mr Barras and the union can't find that
for all their instruments.
:08:52
Barras knows it's there.
There's plans of them workings.
:08:56
- Taking a chance on it, that's all.
- Chance?
:08:59
- If Father says he's seen it, he has.
- He's seen it in the bottom of a glass!
:09:04
Plans or no plans, I've been sitting about here
for eight weeks and I'm fed up.
:09:10
That's the way I like to hear a man talk.
:09:13
Too many lads nowadays break
their necks to get away from pit.
:09:18
At least I've got one son
who wants to work with his coat on.
:09:23
She's right. 'Tisn't a coat I want to work in.
:09:26
Not much difference
between a coat and a football jersey.
:09:30
Tynecastle United are paying apprentices
five quid a week.
:09:34
If he can get away from the pit, I can,
and I don't have to read no books.
:09:49
- How then, Davey?
- Hello, Joe.
:09:52
- You going tomorrow for examination?
- Aye.
:09:55
You're lucky. One of these days
you'll see me in Tynecastle too.