Where'er the floor allows an even space,
Chalking and marks of various games have place;
Boys, without foresight, pleased in halters swing,
On a fix'd hook men cast a flying ring;
While gin and snuff their female neighbours share,
And the black beverage in the fractured ware.
On swinging shelf are things incongruous stored—
Scraps of their food; the cards and cribbage-board,
With pipes and pouches; while on peg below
Hang a lost member's fiddle and its bow,