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"What was you a doing of before Hannah went out?" "Playing with Kitty." "Why were you standing near the hogshead, Benjamin?" "Why," said Ben, ingenuously, "the hogshead happened to be near me that was all." "Were you not trying to drown the kitten?" "O, I wouldn't drown her for anything," said Ben with an injured expression, mentally adding, "short of a three-cent piece."

For my first meal in the New World I bought a three-cent wedge of coarse rye bread, off a huge round loaf, on a stand on Essex Street. I was too strict in my religious observances to eat it without first performing ablutions and offering a brief prayer. So I approached a bewigged old woman who stood in the doorway of a small grocery-store to let me wash my hands and eat my meal in her place.

"Rip slap set em up again, Right in the middle of a three-cent pie,"

Her parasol was a mere rose-leaf for size about as big as a silver three-cent piece. A gentleman with a white hat, whom I had seen walking through the museum with this lady, and who seemed to be her husband, stood looking into the peep-holes when she came out. He cried: "Hold on, Amanda, and I'll go with you to see about the rainbows and the pot of gold."

The Jardin d'Essai, or Botanical Garden, situated in the suburbs near the sea about two miles from the center of the city, is reached by an electric street car of American make which for a three-cent fare carried us to the gates. In the garden the large and varied collection of tropical trees, plants, and vines, so different from those growing in our own temperate climate, greatly delighted us.

And here go the Carpathians and here the Ural mountains, and these must stand for the Apennines." "Are they beautiful too?" "I suppose so but I can't say, never having been there. Now what shall we do for the cities? As they are centres of wealth, I think a three-cent piece must mark them. Hand over, Gary; I have not thrips enough. There is St.

As he did so, a small sheet of postage stamps fell upon the floor. "There, do you see that?" said Eben in triumph. The sheet of stamps contained twenty-five three-cent stamps, representing in value seventy-five cents. "Shall I read the letter, sir?" asked Melville, of the judge. "If there is no objection." Melville read it aloud, as follows: "WAYNEBORO, August 2lst.

He seemed to feel very ill-used, and was scarcely clear of the door-way before he gave vent to his indignation: "I'll be d d, if I don't let Old know that I won't be put off with a five-cent piece and a three-cent piece! Let me ketch him out, and I'll mash his," etc., etc. Glowing with righteous indignation, and glad of the opportunity, the young relative rushed in and exclaimed,

So valuable were its present and potential prospects estimated that in 1852 Thomas E. Davies and his associates had offered, in return for the franchise, to carry passengers for a three-cent fare and to pay the city a million-dollar bonus. Other eager capitalists had hastened to offer the city a continuous payment of $100,000 a year.

From the reporters' tables to the remotest recesses of the gallery the hall was packed tight with a motley mob, in which the element of born cut-throats largely predominated. It was the kind of crowd that could only have been gathered from the three-cent lodging-houses in Chatham Street. A dense volume of tobacco smoke, produced from pipes and demoralized cigar-stumps, choked the room.