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'I dare say I can s s s sell them both, for that matter, observed Jack, encouraged by the promise. 'Well, replied Sponge, 'I'll take the same for the chestnut; there isn't the toss-up of a halfpenny for choice between them. 'Well, said Jack, we'll s s s see them next week. 'Just so, said Sponge.
Then for those whose poverty was extreme, or appetite unusually small, a little cup of tea could be supplied for one halfpenny and a good cup of tea too, not particularly strong, it is true, but with a fair average allowance of milk and sugar. "Waiter," cried Haco Barepoles in a voice that commanded instant attention. "Yessir." "Soup for two, steaks an' 'taties for ditto to foller." "Yessir."
And this process is still going on, so that ultimately the earth will be left very poor, though not absolutely penniless, at least if the retention of a halfpenny can be regarded as justifying that assertion. Saturn, revolving as it does with great rapidity, and having a very large mass, possesses about £2700, while Uranus and Neptune taken together would figure for about the same amount.
Two or three were conning the betting news in a halfpenny paper of the previous evening, and talking familiarly of the chances of the favourites, while others disputed as to sentiments delivered in the last great political speech. In one corner sat Amos Entwistle, the butt of not a little mirth from a half-dozen sceptics who had gathered round him.
There seems to have been no particular dispute about this, but on the morning of the murder, Simonetti was summoned before the overseer of the factory, on the ground of his refusal to pay the sum claimed by Avanzi of fifteen baiocchi, or seven pence halfpenny. Simonetti did not deny that Avanzi had some claim upon him, but disputed the amount.
I promised to rectify that mistake and in half an hour humbled my style to the comprehension of vulgar readers; he approved of the alteration, and gave me some hopes of succeeding in time, though he observed that my performance was very deficient in the quaintness of expression that pleases the multitude: however, to encourage me, he ventured the expense of printing and paper, and, if I remember aright, my share of the sale amounted to fourpence halfpenny.
Compulsory education and the æsthetic movement, not to mention the Labour Party, Tory Democrats, and the Halfpenny Press, were as yet undiscovered delights when my father talked to me in Richmond Park. A young man of to-day, reading or listening to such words, would almost certainly be misled by them regarding the character and position of the speaker.
I would not give a halfpenny to know, said my uncle Toby. Only, an' please your honour, it makes a story look the better in the face 'Tis thy own, Trim, so ornament it after thy own fashion; and take any date, continued my uncle Toby, looking pleasantly upon him take any date in the whole world thou chusest, and put it to thou art heartily welcome
They rubbed their eyes grievously, and spun round three times, if time had brought or left them the power so to spin; and they pulled an Irish halfpenny, with the harp on, from their pockets, and moistened it with saliva which in English means spat on it and then threw it into the pocket on the other side of body.
Timothy would ring the bell in a minute and say: "Here, take him a halfpenny and tell him to move on." Often they had been obliged to add threepence of their own before the man would go Timothy had ever underrated the value of emotion. Luckily he had taken the organs for blue-bottles in his last years, which had been a comfort, and they had been able to enjoy the tunes. But a harp! Cook wondered.
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