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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Two pennies. They are saving up." And Jackanapes jingled them with his hand. "You don't want money except at fair-times, I suppose?" said the General. Jackanapes shook his mop. "If I could have as much as I want, I should know what to buy," said he. "And how much do you want, if you could get it?" "Wait a minute, sir, till I think what twopence from fifteen pounds leaves.
Some honest lads, with whom I had jested at fair-times, hung withering on the ghastly gallows by the wayside; others lay in unknown graves; others languished in gaol or on board ship. My father's own brother, though his life was spared, had been sent away to the plantations to be sold, and to work as a slave.
A wagon paused at the front door, so near the horses might have put their heads in and sniffed up the merchandise, and the woman went to take toll, before telling about her bad scare. "How do you manage in the nights?" inquired her guest. "That's bad about fair-times, when the wild young men get to racin' late along. The pole's been cut when I tied it down, and sometimes they've tried to jump it.
"Yes I have," said Jackanapes. "Two pennies. They are saving up." And Jackanapes jingled them with his hand. "You don't want money except at fair-times, I suppose?" said the General. Jackanapes shook his mop. "If I could have as much as I want, I should know what to buy," said he. "And how much do you want, if you could get it?"
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