CHAPTER XXVII.

Bradford's Fame--Visit to Warehouses--A Smoky Prospect--Ways and Means of Trade--What John Bull likes--What Brother Jonathan likes --Vulcan's Head-quarters--Cleckheaton--Heckmondwike--Busy Traffic --Mirfield--Robin Hood's Grave--Batley the Shoddyopolis--All the World's Tatters--Aspects of Batley--A Boy capt--The Devil's Den-- Grinding Rags--Mixing and Oiling--Shoddy and Shoddy--Tricks with Rags--The Scribbling Machine--Short Flocks, Long Threads--Spinners and Weavers--Dyeing, Dressing, and Pressing--A Moral in Shoddy--A surprise of Real Cloth--Iron, Lead, and Coal--To Wakefield--A Disappointment--The Old Chapel--The Battle-field--To Barnsley-- Bairnsla Dialect--Sheffield 245