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It must co-operate with the Trade Unions in fixing this moral minimum wage for the citizen soldier, and in obtaining for him a guarantee that the wage shall continue until he obtains civil employment on standard terms at the conclusion of the war. That allowance is eighteenpence, being less than one third of the standard allowance for an illegitimate child under an affiliation order.
But law! it would be months afore she'd get another place; and she ain't got nobody to look after her. 'What have you done with the money I gave you last night? he asked. 'There it lies, sir on the mantel-shelf. It ain't for me to touch; it is for the doctor to give his orders about that money. 'Just put this eighteenpence to it, mistress, and ask the doctor what the poor lass may want.
So, when it was tellegrammed to me as the Colonel was on the move in the North, I put on two boys as knows the Colonel, at eighteenpence a day, at each end, one Piccadilly end, and the other Saville Row end, and yesterday morning, as quick as ever could be, after the Limited Express Edinburgh Male Up was in, there comes the Saville Row End Boy here to say as the Colonel was lodged safe in his downey.
The ball for Gervais had cost a shilling, and she had brought eighteenpence with her. 'Six shillings, she repeated, 'it's a lot of money! 'That it is, said Bob, with despair in his voice. Miss Mouse considered. She had been hoping to have ten shillings for her Christmas presents.
Before the end of the voyage they had tea at threepence a cup. Annie reflected that the best "Home and Colonial" tea cost eighteenpence a pound, and that a pound would make two hundred and twenty cups. Similarly with the bread and butter which they ate, and the jam! But it was glorious. Particularly as the sea was smooth!
The Soudan campaign was a picturesque one, and lent itself to vivid word-painting. Now and again a 'Special' managed to get slain, which was not altogether a disadvantage to the paper that employed him, and more often the hand-to-hand nature of the fighting allowed of miraculous escapes which were worth telegraphing home at eighteenpence the word.
Here we found a letter from Salemina, and expended another eighteenpence in telegraphing to her: PEABODY, Coolkilla House, near Mardyke Walk, Cork. We are under Yew Tree at Myrtle Grove where Raleigh and Spenser smoked, read manuscript Faerie Queene, and planted first potato. Delighted Benella better. Join you to-morrow. Don't encourage archaeologist.
Belcovitch and the Shalotten Shammos quarrelled about the sale of the Mitzvahs at the Rejoicing of the Law two years ago. As far as I could gather, the carrying of the smallest scroll of the Law was knocked down to the Shalotten Shammos, for eighteenpence, but Mr.
Twelve beds at eighteenpence a bed that's eighteen shillings; and say ten bob in various drinks and the stuff we brought with us, that's two pound twelve. That publican didn't do so bad out of us in two hours." We wondered how much the driver got out of it, but thought it best not to ask him. We didn't say much for the rest of the journey.
It was offered round the town at a tremendous reduction, so I am told; and was eventually sold for eighteenpence to a bilious-looking youth who had just been advised by his medical men to go to the sea-side, and take exercise.
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