The Mills of Colne Author:Robert Neill General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1959 Original Publisher: Doubleday Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 14 A GIG IN TRAWDEN Nicholas arrived at the mill full of zest and zeal on Monday morning, and declared that he was going away again on Friday. He was repeating his London journey, to bring home Tom and Susie, who were still with his friend the banker; so in the meantime he would have to be busy, and he demanded the fullest details about production of yam at the mill while he had been away, with costs of everything. Then he said that they would have more yarn in hand than he had been able to sell in Manchester, and it would have to be sold in Blackburn. He thought Lister« less