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Updated: June 27, 2025
'Yes, remarked another philosopher. 'If we only had a shove-ha'penny table or a ring board, I reckon we should be able to enjoy ourselves all right. Philpot and Harlow were still absent, and the others again fell to wondering where they could be. 'I see old Joe up on 'is ladder only a few minutes before twelve, remarked Wantley. Everyone agreed that it was a mystery.
He had only sevenpence left, just enough to pay for another pint for Crass and half a pint for everyone else. The shove-ha'penny table was a planed mahogany board with a number of parallel lines scored across it.
The only other occupant of the public bar previous to the entrance of Crass and his mates was a semi-drunken man, who appeared to be a house-painter, sitting on the form near the shove-ha'penny board. He was wearing a battered bowler hat and the usual shabby clothes.
On the partition, just above the shove-ha'penny board was a neatly printed notice, framed and glazed: NOTICE Gentlemen using this house are requested to refrain from using obscene language.
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