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The egg that hen belonged to laid 53 hens running and never stopped." She called the egg a hen and the hen an egg. At Englefield Green They have another picture, done in the same way, of a greyhound running after a hare, also good but not so good. At Abbey Wood I heard a man say to another: "I went to live there just about the time that beer came down from 5d. to 4d. a pot.
It has been remarked that Loanda has no shop that sells "food for the mind;" this is applicable, not only to all East and West Africa, but to places far more progressive. A kind of cafe-billard supplies a lounge and tepid beer. The attendants in Portuguese houses are slaves; the few English prefer Cabindas, a rude form of the rude Kru-boy, and the lowest pay of the lowest labourer is 5d. per diem.
There are sixty-three tenants occupying plots varying in size, according to circumstances, from 48 "lug" downwards 25, 30, 16, &c. A "lug" is a provincialism for perch. The rent is 5d. per "lug" or perch, and each occupier on becoming a tenant receives a card on which the following rules are printed in large type:
Winkworth and Proctor are also producers of high class silks for ladies' dresses and gentlemen's waistcoats. Manchester is particularly celebrated for plain silk goods of a superior quality at a moderate price. There are also manufactories of small wares, which include parasols and umbrellas. A parasol begins at 4.5d. wholesale.
About 30 years back, the labourers in this parish received 6s. per week; at this time they received 8s. per week 30 years back, the quartern loaf averaged about 5d. at this time it is 10-1/2d. 30 years back, the labourer could purchase with his week's pay, 6s. fourteen quartern loaves; now he can only purchase with his week's pay, 8s. nine quartern loaves about 30 years back, the principal farm in this parish, then belonging to the late Mr.
Ask the men and they will tell you something like the following story, which gives the simple experiences of a dock labourer. R. P. said: "I was in regular work at the South West India Dock before the strike. We got 5d. an hour. Start work 8 a.m. summer and 9 a.m winter. He would know quite five hundred by name.
The Italian bankers evidently loaned to others besides the king, for in 1327 the Knights Hospitallers in England repaid to the Society of the Bardi £848 5d., and to the Peruzzi £551 12s. 11d. They continued to loan freely to the king, till in 1348 he was indebted to one company alone to the extent of more than £50,000, a sum equal in modern value to about $3,000,000.
I thought for a moment, it might be well to keep 3l. of this money for that purpose. But it occurred to me immediately, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." The Lord can provide, by tomorrow, much more than I need, and I therefore sent 3l. to one of the sisters, whose quarterly salary was due, and the remaining 1l. 1s. 5d. to the Boys-Orphan-House for housekeeping.
Thomas Upfill. It was stated incidentally that the total receipts amounted to £2,222 12s. 5d.; that donations had been received by the Fête Committee amounting to £93 13s.; and that they had secured annual subscriptions amounting to £26 14s. 6d. Pending these matters, Walsh and his friends had not been idle. Preparations for the second fête were commenced, and energetically urged forward.
One woman, who described herself as "very poor", and who had had thirteen children and was expecting another, wrote saying, "if you want money we will manage to send you my husband's pay one week". An army officer wrote thanking us, saying he had "a wife, seven children, and three servants to keep on 11s. 8d. a day; 5d. per head per diem keeps life in us. The rest for education and raiment."
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