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Having heard of some giant's bones at a neighbouring farmhouse on the Sarandis, a small stream entering the Rio Negro, I rode there accompanied by my host, and purchased for the value of eighteenpence the head of the Toxodon. I must express my obligation to Mr. Keane, at whose house I was staying on the Berquelo, and to Mr.
"I got it for for for " the detected Conspirator stammered, trying her best to put on the assassin-expression that she had been practising at the looking-glass. "For " "For what, Madam!" "Well, for eighteenpence, if you must know, dearest! That's what I got it for, on my " "Now don't say your Word and Honour!" groaned the other Conspirator. "Why, they aren't worth half the money, put together!"
Is it possible that the imitations could have been mistaken for originals? Afterwards, the little book could be picked up for eighteenpence; even for sixpence. It was always a great favorite with Lamb. He reviewed it, after White's death, in the Examiner.
At such an hour he was generally wending his way to a Bloomsbury eating-house, where he dined for eighteenpence; he was a part of the striving, moneyless student-world. But here, from this bustling Haymarket with its gay, hurrying figures, there breathed new forces, new passions which bewildered him.
"You'd be a fool if you did," Mr. Quinn interrupted. " ... but I'd mebbe be worth about double what you named yourself, sir!" "Eighteenpence!" Mr. Quinn exclaimed. "Aye, that or a bit more. Were you wantin' anything else, sir!" He winked heavily at Henry as he turned away. "You're not worth the food you eat," Mr. Quinn said.
In the North of England, the home of so many of our old customs, the practice of giving Pace eggs still lingers on; and we find amongst the household expenses of King Edward I. an item of "four hundred and a half of eggs eighteenpence," which were purchased on Easter Day. The prices current in the thirteenth century for eggs would scarcely be deemed sufficient by our modern poultry-keepers!
"Well, my men," he said, "I have lost some of my crew, and I suppose you'll have no objection to entering regularly for the voyage in their place. You'll share with the other able seamen eighteenpence for each tun of oil, you know, besides monthly wages."
"The Mater gave me half-a-crown a week for pocket-money," he continued, "and I told the fellows I had only a shilling, so that I could gorge myself with the other eighteenpence undisturbed. Pah! I was a little beast even in those days!" "It was only a schoolboy trick," I argued, "it was natural enough."
"This is the most difficult trick o' the lot," ses the conjurer, picking off a wheel wot 'ad stuck to the flat-iron. "Sometimes I can do it and sometimes I can't. Last time I tried it it was a failure, and it cost me eighteenpence and a pint o' beer afore the gentleman the watch 'ad belonged to was satisfied. I gave 'im the bits, too."
Coppers, a sixpence, a shilling, no other small change, and he durst not offer so little as eighteenpence. "Got change?" he inquired as boldly as possible. "How much?" returned the driver curtly, for he had noticed with curiosity that his fare exchanged no greeting with the carriage people and that the door was shut. "Change for half a sovereign. Seven shillings would do." "Ain't got it.
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