eleven at night
Four entertainments of ten minutes each were to be given every hour , for each of which the sum of threepence a head was to be charged , twopence to go to the artists , a penny to the landlord , who would , of course , make his ` bit ' also out of the drink supplied . And what a success they had that day ! Not only did the factory hands come in , but they paid their threepence over and over again . They seemed never to grow tired of hearing Dick and Kate sing ` The Mulligan Guards , ' and when she called out ` Corps ' and he touched his cap , and they broke into a dance , the delight of the workpeople knew no bounds , and they often stopped the entertainment to hand up their mugs of beer to the mummers with a ` Ave a soop , mon. ' From twelve o'clock in the day until eleven at night the affair was kept going ; Kate , Dick , and Williams dancing and singing in turn , and Montgomery all the while spanking away at the dominoes . It was heavy work , but the coin they took was considerable , and it came in handy , for in the next three towns they did very badly . But at Padiham a curious accident turned out in the end very luckily for them . There were but five people in the house , one of whom was drunk .