text:  Great hard-featured savage-looking fellows they were though in their holiday attire and accompanied by one or two of the Bailey family--the real iron kings of the neighbourhood; and a sight of their grim features and brawny arms gave us a more vivid respect for the courage of Sir Thomas Philips who drove them back from the sack and massacre of Newport; and also a clearer idea of the almost justifiable hardihood of the worshipful Mister Frost in thinking that with ten or twelve thousand souls made of fire and children of the mine he could upset Old England and be himself the legitimate successor of King Coal