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.
Young Aaron was very clever at it.

He pottered round the inn of an evening and Saturday afternoons, doing odd jobs in the cellar with the barrels; for your true toping spirit loves to knock the hoops and to work about the cask, and carry the jugs in answer to the cry for some more 'tangle-legs'-- for thus they called the strong beer.

Sometimes a labourer would toast his cheese on a fork in the flame of the candle.
In the old days, before folk got so choice of food and delicate of palate, there really seemed no limit to the strange things they ate.
Before the railways were made, herds of cattle had of course to travel the roads, and often came great distances.

The drovers were at the same time the hardiest and the roughest of men in that rough and hardy time.