the Scotch coast, in spite of the proverb.  At first, while the Union’s funds held out, all went well, but towards summer the struggle became much more painful for the miners.  The greatest want prevailed among them; they had no money, for the contributions of the workers of all branches of industry in England availed little among the vast number of strikers, who were forced to borrow from the small shopkeepers at a heavy loss.  The whole press, with the single exception of the few proletarian journals, was against them; the bourgeois, even the few among them who might have had enough sense of justice to support the miners, learnt from the corrupt Liberal and Conservative sheets only lies about them.  A deputation of twelve miners who went to London received a sum from the proletariat there, but this, too, availed little among the mass who needed support.  Yet, in spite of all this, the miners remained steadfast, and what is even more significant, were quiet and peaceable in the face of all the hostilities and provocation of the mine owners and their faithful servants.  No act of revenge was carried out, not a renegade was maltreated, not one single theft committed.  Thus the strike had continued well on towards four months, and the mine owners still had no prospect of getting the upper hand.  One way was, however, still open to them.  They remembered the cottage system; it occurred to them that the houses of the rebellious spirits were THEIR property.  In July, notice to quit was served the workers, and, in a week, the whole forty thousand were put out of doors.  This measure was carried out with revolting cruelty.  The sick, the feeble, old men and little children, even women in childbirth, were mercilessly turned from their beds and cast into the roadside ditches.  One agent dragged by the hair from her bed, and into the street, a woman in the pangs of childbirth.  Soldiers and police in crowds were present, ready to fire at the first symptom of resistance, on the slightest hint of the Justices of the Peace, who had brought about the whole brutal procedure.  This, too, the working-men endured without resistance.  The hope had been that the men would use violence; they were spurred on with all force to infringements of the laws, to furnish an excuse for making an end of the strike by the intervention of the military.  The homeless miners, remembering the warnings of their Attorney General, remained unmoved, set up their household goods upon the moors or the harvested fields, and held out.  Some, who had no other place, encamped on the roadsides and in ditches, others upon land belonging to other people, whereupon they were prosecuted, and, having caused “damage of the value of a halfpenny,” were fined a pound, and, being unable to pay it, worked it out on the treadmill.  Thus they lived eight weeks and more of the wet fag-end of last summer under the open sky with their families, with no further shelter for themselves and their little