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Updated: May 11, 2025
"I don't think, you know," said I, feeling rather extinguished by Doubleday's pitying tone, "it's such a very cheap place. It's three- and-six a week." Doubleday gazed at me in astonishment, and then broke out into a loud laugh. "Three-and-six a week! Why, my dear fellow, you could do it cheaper in a workhouse.
Foreign housekeepers starting business in London appear hurt when our tradesmen decline to accept half-a-crown for articles marked three- and-six. "Then why mark it only three-and-sixpence?" is the foreign housekeeper's argument. That we Englishmen attach too much importance to sport goes without saying or, rather, it has been said so often as to have become a commonplace.
Hawkins, as was put in to look after the vicarage while the Reverend Fraser was away, told me last night how as she had got a telegraft the sight of which, she said, knocked her all faint like, till she turned just as yellow as the cover, to say nothing of four- and-six porterage, the which, however, she intends to recover from the Reverend Lord, where was I?"
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