about twenty minutes past seven
He took out his pocket knife and cut off the tail of the large bloater . `` Ere it is , then , ' he said to Bert . ` I 've cut the tail of mine so as you 'll know which it is . ' It was now about twenty minutes past seven and all the other men having been started at work , Crass washed his hands under the tap . Then he went into the kitchen and having rigged up a seat by taking two of the drawers out of the dresser and placing them on the floor about six feet apart and laying a plank across , he sat down in front of the fire , which was now burning brightly under the pail , and , lighting his pipe , began to smoke . The boy went into the scullery and began washing up the cups and jars for the men to drink out of . Bert was a lean , undersized boy about fifteen years of age and about four feet nine inches in height .