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All I ask is, as these young gents and ladies'll bring some parsley seed into the dream, and a penn'orth of radish seed, and threepenn'orth of onion, and I wouldn't mind goin' to fourpence or fippence for mixed kale, only I ain't got a brown, so I don't deceive you. And there's one thing more, you might take away the parson.
Now I'll put it to you. Is it worth sixpence, fippence, fourpence, threepence, twopence, a penny, a halfpenny, a farthing? No, it ain't. Not worth a farthing. Very well, then. My conclusion was that I would begin her book with some account of myself. So that, through reading a specimen or two of me on the footboard, she might form an idea of my merits there.
There's, yer sowl, there's fippence worth any day ay the week. More be token, the letter from Jemmy O'Brien to his wife, wid an elegant epic poem called 'The Gauger. Bloody news, gentlemen! bloody news! Won't yez sport a tester for a sight of a real battle, and ten thousand kilt; with 'The Whole Duty of an Informer, in two easy lessons. The price of stocks and shares Ay, Mr.
"It's too much," said Jerry. "Five pound! Fippence is about all his life's worth?" "Have you a box of matches?" "Yes; want a smoke, sir?" "Light a match." Jerry obeyed, struck a light, and held the cheque in one hand, the wax taper in the other. "Burn it," said Dick, shortly. "It's fi' pounds, sir; and you may want it." "Burn it!" cried Dick, sternly.
"But it's taking advantage of me; and you know that if I weren't in love and in a hurry it wouldn't happen." "You can take fippence, or go to the devil!" said Captain Coffin. "By the way, Brooks, this is my assistant, Mr. George Goodfellow." "Good day," said Mr. George Goodfellow, nodding affably. "I hope I see you well." "Pretty well, thank you, sir," I answered.
Farthingale's bill for fippence no, nor his bond neither; and he's stupid beside but he can't help that, the hound! and he'll owe a whole year's rent only six weeks hence, and he has not a shilling to bless himself with. Unfortunate devil I've no reason to like him but, truly, I do pity him.
Busy with visitors, eh? No? Well, I've been thinkin' it over, and I'll take sixpence an hour." "I don't give a ha'penny over fippence," answered Captain Coffin, patently taken aback by the interruption. "Fivepence, then, as a pro-temporary accommodation," said the youth, and, throwing a leg over the wall, heaved himself over and into the back yard.
"How was that, Terry?" asked a gentleman near. "Take a 'Saunders, yer honor, and I 'll tell you." "Here, then, here's fippence; and now for the explanation." "Molly Crownahon, yer honor, was, like us poor craytures, always grateful and contented wid the Lord's goodness to us, even in taking away our chief comfort and blessing, the darling up there on the horse!
I hope in my heart everything is as fine as fippence, or my lady 'll turn up her nose. 'I can't make things neater, Davy. This was said by Mrs Prothero, in a desponding tone, quite different from her former quiet cheerfulness, and she accompanied the words by rubbing her hands nervously one over the other. 'There now, don't look as if you were going to be smothered.
"Give me a shilling to put it right for you, and you'll save yourself a lot of trouble." "That's the landlord's affair," answered Captain Coffin, "and I'm not paying you fippence an' hour to talk. "But, sir," I put in, "if you walk to Plymouth you must pass the house where I live a low-roofed house about three miles this side of St.
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