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At eleven years old he could not be trusted to scare birds, and at half that age the farm-bailiff's eldest child could drive cattle. "And no' just ruin the leedies in new coats and compliments, either, like some ne'er-do-weels," added the farm-bailiff, who had heard with a jealous ear of sixpences given by Miss Betty and Miss Kitty to their wasteful favourite.
The afternoon saddened more and more, and one could not take an interest in the islanders who came out in little cockles and proposed to dive for shillings and sixpences, though quarters and dimes would do.
Thus the Dominie concluded, reminding his hearers that, as it was Harvest-Sunday, they must not forget to be liberal with their sixpences when the box came round. His hearers were greatly delighted, and declared they had not heard him preach so good a sermon for many a day.
"I don't care, of course. I was only thinking that, in case but there, it's no odds! Well, Mr. Freemoult, you've told me what I was curious to know, and here's your little honnyrarium, sir two shillings and two sixpences, making three shillings in all, pre-cisely." "Keep your money, sir," said the old man, with contemptuous good humour.
If the counting of the gold was terrible to her, the counting of the silver was absolutely appalling, for the latter, consisting as it did of half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences, numbered nearly five hundred pieces.
Shall I go and see?" "We might tip one of those fellows outside a sixpence to go and get us some." "Hold hard, old man!" said Horace, laughing again. "We're not so flush of sixpences as all that. I guess if we want any water we shall have to get it ourselves. I'll be back directly."
Sponge also lent her a few bad sixpences, for which she ordered her to bring home good ones at night. Betty stared. Mrs. Sponge said, "Betty, those who would get money, must not be too nice about trifles.
Bill slouched up to the tent and entered. When he beheld the magnificent proportions of Robert he said but little 'Strike me pink! were the only words the children could afterwards remember but he produced fifteen shillings, mainly in sixpences and coppers, and handed it to Robert. 'We'll fix up about what you're to draw when the show's over to-night, he said with hoarse heartiness.
Here he shook the pocket with the five sixpences in it, and Totty showed her teeth and wrinkled her nose in great glee; but, divining that there was nothing more to be got by staying, she jumped off the shelf and ran away to jingle her pocket in the hearing of Nancy, while her mother called after her, "Oh for shame, you naughty gell!
At the corner of Chapel Street, Stratford, where it turns into Chapel Lane, there is an ugly modern house that enjoys the title of New Place and receives the sixpences of the faithful. The trustees of Shakespeare's birthplace own New Place and Anne Hathaway's cottage.
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