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Crass, Dick Wantley, the Semi-drunk, Sawkins, Bill Bates and several other frequenters of the Cricketers were amongst the crowd, and there were also a sprinkling of tradespeople, including the Old Dear and Mr Smallman, the grocer, and a few ladies and gentlemen wealthy visitors but the bulk of the crowd were working men, labourers, mechanics and boys.
The front of the grocer's shop badly needed repainting, and the name on the fascia, 'A. Smallman', was so faded as to be almost indecipherable. It had been Owen's intention to offer to do this work the cost to go against his account but the man appeared to be so harassed that Owen refrained from making the suggestion.
But he would not let Clemantiny see him cry. Somehow, he would not have minded Miss Salome. "What are you thinking of doing now?" Miss Salome went on. "There's a man at East Hopedale wants a boy," said Chester, "and Martin says he thinks I'll suit." "That is Jonas Smallman," said Miss Salome thoughtfully. "He has the name of being a hard master. It isn't right of me to say so, perhaps.
He smiled an adieu and went off to join a company commander he had arranged to meet. When we reached the bank A Battery were about to move to a sunken road farther forward. Smallman, from South Africa, nicknamed "Buller," was in charge, and he pointed joyously to an abandoned Boche Red Cross waggon that the battery had "commandeered."
About twenty yards away, the shop formerly tenanted by Mr Smallman, the grocer, who had become bankrupt two or three months previously, was also plastered with similar decorations.
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