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Then came a Dutchman, and asked for six penn'orth of 'brood en kaas', and haggled for beer; and Englishmen, who bought chickens and champagne without asking the price. Then came a Hottentot, stupidly drunk, with a fiddle, and was beaten by a little red-haired Scotchman, and his fiddle smashed.
Would I have run to see a paltry two-story washerwoman's mangling-shed flare up, when six penn'orth of squibs and shavings and a cracker make twice the fun! I turned to her, hardly able to speak. 'Where 's the Bench, if you please? She pointed. I looked on an immense high wall. The blunt flames of the fire opposite threw a sombre glow on it.
'May I come with you? asked the little maid, and went off into a prattle: 'I spent that five shillings I bought a shilling's worth of sweet stuff, and nine penn'orth of twine, and a shilling for small wax candles to light in my room when I'm going to bed, because I like plenty of light by the looking-glass always, and they do make the room so hot!
A fox and a young terrier had both paid their money, and were eagerly waiting for their oysters, disturbing by their clamour a grave old dog who was licking the shell of his last penn'orth, when a domestic from a wealthy family, arrayed in a superb livery cloak, came up to order a lot for his master.
In an incredibly short space of time he drank away his practice, his reputation, his hopes of high honour, his last penny. Thus it was that my historian came to beg of me for that muddy penn'orth. I may as well finish the Doctor's story. If I were writing fiction the tale would be scouted as improbable, yet I am going to state plain facts.
A single family has been known to make seventy-two distinct purchases of tea within seven weeks, and the average purchases of a number of poor families for the same period amounted to twenty-seven. Their groceries are bought largely by the ounce, their meat or fish by the half- penn'orth, their coal by the cwt., or even by the lb.
That young gentleman, as the reader will remember, had been a bosom friend of Love in his day, and was animated to some extent by the spirit of his comrade. "Hullo, my man!" said Sam, walking into the shop. "Governor's out, then?" "Yus." "Got any lollipops in those bottles?" "Yus." "Any brandy-balls?" "No." "Any acid-drops?" "Yus." "I'll take a penn'orth, then.
It was interesting to note the difference in the behaviour of the men in choosing their heaps; some hung fire and seemed quite unable to make up their minds for as much as ten minutes or a quarter of an hour and they would probably have been longer but for the impatient remonstrances of their fellows while others simply laid their caps alongside the nearest heap and swept the latter into the former with as little emotion as though they had been purchasing a penn'orth of gooseberries at a street-barrow.
"So I'd be obliged if you'd tell him to scoot." "Ivan," said the Russian softly, "perhaps you would not mind retiring into the next room " "The next room won't do," interrupted Julius. "I know these ducal suites and I want this one plumb empty except for you and me. Send him round to a store to buy a penn'orth of peanuts."
"My sarvice to you, marm, if you please, to two penn'orth of pigtail and a paper of shorts." "Much obliged to you, Mr Saunders," replied she. "Sure we're much indebted to Admiral Lord Nelson for sending us such fine-looking pensioners. I shouldn't wonder if I were to choose a husband out of the hospital yet."
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