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Updated: May 12, 2025
The candle had long burnt out, but the fire was bright, and he knelt a moment by the trestle-table before he went out. 'He made a good end, John, he said, rising from his knees, 'and I pray that our end may be in as good cause when it comes. For with the best of us the hour of death is an awful hour, and we may well pray, as every Sunday, to be delivered in it.
In the 'tap' of an evening you might see the labourers playing at 'chuck-board, which consists in casting a small square piece of lead on to certain marked divisions of a shallow tray-like box placed on the trestle-table. The lead, being heavy, would stay where it fell; the rules I do not know, but the scene reminded me of the tric-trac contests depicted by the old Dutch painters.
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