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Once we had a shillin', and we were sick. We're goin' to spend three pennies out of one shillin' every day, till they're gone." "And aren't you going to put any by for a rainy day?" "No." Frances Freeland did not know what to answer. Dear little things! The dear little things vanished.
But dinna gie them mair nor a shillin' or twa at ance jist to haud them in life. They deserve nae mair. But they maunna sterve. And jist ye tell them, laddie, at gin they spen' ae saxpence o' 't upo' whusky, they s' get nae mair. 'Ay, ay, grannie, responded Robert, with a glimmer of gladness in his heart.
Eawr wenches are gettin' a day for t' sick, neaw and then, but that's all. There's a brother o' mine lives with us, he'd a been clemmed into th' grave but for th' relief; an' aw've been many a time an' hesn't put a bit i' my meawth fro mornin' to mornin' again. We've bin married twenty-four year; an' aw don't think at him an' me together has spent a shillin' i' drink all that time.
But, by smoke! we're a-makin' iron now in Amerikey! Kittles is cheap, and that's why this crane is left by robbers an' gypsies after they used it." He twisted the crane out of the bricks on which it was hinged, and some of the mantel jamb fell down. "Hallo!" cried Jimmy, "what's this a rollin' yer? A shillin', by George! I say, by George, this time caze ole George the Third's picter's on it.
Solomon took out his wallet and removed from it a worn and soiled piece of paper and studied the memoranda it contained. Then he did some ciphering with a piece of lead. In a moment he said: You have got a thousan' an' fifteen pounds an' six shillin' fer to do with as ye please an' no questions asked nary one." "You mean you've got it."
"I'll keep pickin' as hard as I can, an' ye'll no' be sae muckle missed." "Oh, I'll hae to keep on, too," she replied, almost despairingly, with a hint of tears in her voice. "Ye mind I promised to work hard, an' ye said I was a guid worker, too. If I dinna' keep on I micht only get a shillin' a day." "But I'll pick as much as the twa o' us can do," pursued Robert, with persuasive voice.
Tinman's practicing before the glass preparatory to his going to the palace in London." "He gave me a shillin'," said Crummins. Crickledon comprehended him immediately. "We sha'n't speak about it, Ned." What did you see? was thus cautiously suggested. The shilling was on Crummins' tongue to check his betrayal of the secret scene.
We may guess it from the next entry: May 2, By 1 famly bible 1 poun, 13 shillin That ended the rum chapter. There is not another spirituous entry in all of Ezekial Jackson's credits. "By one mometer" comes next, May 6th. Probably Captain Ben felt himself cooling down pretty rapidly for the season, and wanted to take the temperature.
Bolton, lent me three shillin's, and I don't like to ask her for any more: and I asked that d d old Costigan, the confounded old penniless Irish miscreant, and he hadn't got a shillin', the beggar; and Campion's out of town, or else he'd do a little bill for me, I know he would." "I thought you swore on your honour to your wife that you wouldn't put your name to paper," said Mr.
He's got some o' their wages up a hale shillin' a day since he took it in hand." "Is that a fact, Peter? The sooner we ha'e him up here the better then. Black Jock needs a chap back onyway," and Matthew looked like a man who had suddenly discovered a great truth.
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