Read this excerpt of an interview with betty harris, 37. she worked as a "drawer" in a coal pit in england. (note drawers pull the coal carts, on their hands and knees, through narrow, dark tunnels.) "i was married at 23, and went into a colliery (coal mine) when i was married. i used to weave when about 12 years old; can neither read nor write. i work for andrew knowles, of little bolton, and make sometimes 7s a week, sometimes not so much. i am a drawer, and work from 6 in the morning to 6 at night. stop about an hour at noon to eat my dinner; have bread and butter for dinner; i get no drink. i have two children, but they are too young to work. i worked at drawing when i was in the family way. i know a woman who has gone home and washed herself, taken to her bed, delivered of a child, and gone to work again under the week. i have a belt round my waist, and a chain passing between my legs, and i go on my hands and feet. the road is very steep, and we have to hold by a rope; and when there is no rope, by anything we can catch hold of. there are six women and about six boys and girls in the pit i work in; it is very hard work for a woman. the pit is very wet where i work, and the water comes over our clog-tops always, and i have seen it up to my thighs; it rains in at the roof terribly. my clothes are wet through almost all day cousin looks after my children in the day time. i am very tired when i get home at night; i fall asleep sometimes before i get washed. i am not so strong as i was, and cannot stand my work so well as i used have known many a man beat his drawer. "

according to betty's account, what were the working conditions of the coal pits? was the work easy or difficult? what does betty say to give you that impression?

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