[Margaret Pilkington]

Stealing??? Ma would have had forty thousand pink fits in ten seconds......would've had the priest in to give the sermon on hell, purgatory and damnation(he was o-irish so he knew all about those things)....my brother took 2d from her purse one morning(there was only 8d in it and he thought she wouldn't miss the two big copper ones......dumb lads huh)........she took him by the ear and dragged him all the way along Nuttall Street.......still firmly held by the ear, down to the Police Station.......the bobbies(who were a different breed then) locked him in a cell for 30 minutes, just to teach him the error of his ways......he got no tea that night and was sent to bed with a rumbly belly.
Aaaaaah, the good old days!