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Put 'im i' th' pit we me, an' 'ell earn a easy ten shillin' a wik from th' start. But six shillin' wearin' his truck-end out on a stool's better than ten shillin' i' th' pit wi'me, I know." "He is NOT going in the pit," said Mrs. Morel, "and there's an end of it." "It wor good enough for me, but it's non good enough for 'im."
Just came up to see if the gardener's about, and he'd give me a job." "You know he wouldn't," I said. "The Doctor will not have you about the place again." "And it's very hard," he whined. "Everybody's agen me, and takes 'vantage of me, even young gents as owes me money and won't pay." "Why, who owes you money, Magg?" "You do, sir; four shillin', which I wouldn't ask you for, but "
Somebody else wanted to know what about their five shillin'? "Well, an' what about the five shillin'?" repeated Ted, reddening, however, a little uncomfortably. "Well, this here isn't what we expected; nay, not by a long road. We was lookin' for summat joy'al, a gradely marlock, thou knows. This here's an ord'nary kind o' business."
If I take you off a two inch from each leg of that there bedstead, and a two inch from each of them there postsis, it'll be the same as if the builder 'e raised you the ceilin' a four inch." "By Jove," said Jevons. "So it will." "Ay, and it'll corst you somethin' like four shillin', instead of p'raps a matter of forty pound. W'en it comes to tamperin' with ceilin's, you never know where you are."
"I'm afraid you can't even be with me. I have to earn my own living." "Yes, miss; but when you marry a rich gentleman, I should like to come with you as 'general." "Don't talk nonsense, Amelia." "But it ain't, miss; didn't the music master, 'im with the lovely, long, shiny 'air, promise me a shillin' to give you a note?" "Did he?" laughed Mavis.
If this ere ain't worth the five shillin' yer gave me, nothin' is that's all I've got to say." "But, Jim, you must see we cannot do anything unless the proof is complete. Now, if there should happen to be a second instance, that would be a different thing altogether." "It ain't very comfortable for ME." "What do you mean? Mr. Furze sent for you, and you told him what you saw with your own eyes."
"A blessing on your precious face!" she cried. "Twa joes o' mine: just twa o' my old joes, my hinny dear." "What did they suffer for?" I asked. "Ou, just for the guid cause," said she. "Aften I spaed to them the way that it would end. Twa shillin' Scots: no pickle mair; and there are twa bonny callants hingin' for't! They took it frae a wean belanged to Brouchton."
It was worth two shillin' to go for that; there, hyste it up and in with you." "Hoist the ladder by myself?" "Yes, it's easy enough. Bottom's heavy and top's light. Shall I do it?" "Yes, quickly." "'Nother shillin'. I arn't going to have nothing to do with it, and so I tell yer, without." "I wish you wouldn't speak so loudly," whispered Sam impatiently. "Yah! go on! nobody can't hear us.
So she said, "'Deed, now, I believe I've a splindid yella bit somewheres, a trifle creased in the folds, that I could make you a prisint of for a shillin'." And she rummaged, and unrolled before him interminable coils of vivid dandelion-hued ribbon. "The grand colour of it couldn't be bet," she said, "in Ireland.
"William MacLure," said Drumsheugh, in one of the few confidences that ever broke the Drumtochty reserve, "a' 'm a lonely man, wi' naebody o' ma ain blude tae care for me livin', or tae lift me intae ma coffin when a' 'm deid. "A' fecht awa' at Muirtown market for an extra pund on a beast, or a shillin' on the quarter o' barley, an' what's the gude o' 't?
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