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In the early Thirties; tu shillin' the bottle; there's no such wine nowadays and," he added, looking at Zachary, "no such men." Zachary smiled and said: "You did nothing so big, dad, as what I'm after, now!" The old man's eyes had a sort of disdain in them. "You're going far, then, in the Pied Witch, Zack?" "I am," said Zachary. "And where might yu be goin' in that old trampin' smut factory?"
"I will take a glass of sherry. They 'old to it, you see." He took the glass Mrs. Johnson handed him, and poised it critically between a horny finger and thumb. "You'll be paying for this," he said to Mr. Polly. "Here's to you.... Don't you go treading on my hat, young woman. You brush your skirts against it and you take a shillin' off its value. It ain't the sort of 'at you see nowadays."
Shargar, in his turn, was obstinate. Lammie, when Robert returned the shilling with Mrs. Falconer's message, 'but I reckon I maun pit it i' my pooch, for she will hae her ain gait, an' I dinna want to strive wi' her. But gin ony o' ye be in want o' a shillin' ony day, lads, as lang 's I'm abune the yird this ane 'll be grown twa, or maybe mair, 'gen that time.
"It's vera different frae my last place," says I, discontented-like. And the words were true enough, for auld Fairmer Scott only gave me a pund a month and parritch twice a day. "Weel, weel," says he, "maybe we'll gie ye a rise if ye suit. Meanwhile here's the han'sel shillin' that Maister McNeil tells me it's the custom tae give, and I shall expec' tae see ye at Cloomber on Monday."
Don't you believe it, my lad. You've been werry kind to me, and begged me on again here when I've been 'most starving, and many's the shillin' you've give me, Mas' Don, to buy comforts, or I wouldn't say to you what I does now, and werry welcome a shilling would be to-day, Mas' Don." "I haven't any money, Mike." "Got no money, my lad? What a shame, when half of all this here ought to be yourn.
"Do you keep the gun, Mike," he added, "an' I'll keep the cocksticks. Rody, I'll bet you a shillin' I kill more wid! the cockstick, nor he will wid the gun, will you take me up?" "I know a safer thrick," replied Rody; "you're a dead aim wid the cockstick, sure enough, an' a deader with the gun, too; catch me at it."
This is a hever so much better one as I've got to sell for a chap for five shillin': but if you don't want to buy it, you needn't keep finding fault with it. I dessay Mr Big Burr will buy it. It's a beauty ain't yer?" "But I do want to buy it," said Mercer, watching the man as he stroked and caressed the thin creature, "but I haven't got any money to spare." "That don't matter.
I would rather give a man a shillin' on a day like this than put him off with a derision like a bawbee. I'm surprised at the like of you, Mr. Baigrey! 'My name is not Baigrey! broke out John, in mere childish temper and distress. 'Ye told me it was yoursel', said the cabman. 'I know I did; and what the devil right had you to ask? cried the unhappy one. 'Oh, very well, said the driver.
"If she was the coper you'd steer the other way," remarked the mate, with a laugh. "In course I would," retorted Fox, "for there I'd find cheap baccy and brandy." "Ay, bad brandy," said the mate; "but, skipper, you can get baccy cheaper aboard the mission ships now than aboard the coper." "What! at a shillin' a pound?" "Ay, at a shillin' a pound." "I don't believe it."
Who'd think as I'd iver stood again all comers for miles and miles around for the ten-score yards? I did though!" "Didst?" cried Snac. "Then tek a shillin' and get a drop o' good stuff wi' it, an' warm up that old gizzard o' thine wi' thinkin' o' thy younger days." And away he swaggered, carrying his shilling's worth with him in the commendations of the rustic circle.
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