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More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. At Lerwick, the small capital of the Shetland islands, tenpence a-day, I have been assured, is a common price of common labour. In the same islands, they knit worsted stockings to the value of a guinea a pair and upwards.
"Employment, with wages in cash is the general outcry." Com. Gen. Hewitson to Mr. Trevelyan; Commissariat Series, p. 12. "Those at taskwork had fivepence, and in some cases as low as threepence per diem.
I shouldn't be able to pay my creditors in good gold Portuguese half-johannes and Spanish doubloons, and be free of Spanish silver, and give no heed to the bitt, which, as you perhaps know, is equal to fivepence in British money, such as you and I used to spend when you were Queen of Ireland and I was your slave.
By the Bank act the governors and company declared themselves willing to accept an annuity of eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-one pounds, seven shillings and tenpence halfpenny, or the principal of one million seven hundred and seventy-five thousand and twenty-seven pounds, seventeen shillings and tenpence halfpenny, in lieu of the present annuity, amounting to one hundred and six thousand five hundred and one pounds, thirteen shillings and fivepence.
"And you mean that you really care about me?" "Of course I care! I believe I'll die if you don't get better," she said eagerly. He fumbled in his pockets, lit several matches and put something in her hand. "Here it is, look. Thirteen pounds, eight and fivepence." "What's that for?" "It's all my money. If I have any I'll be magnetized towards the bar. If I haven't, it's much safer.
"Says I to myself, 'They've made a mistake as to the side they took but when they see that the British is beat, they'll do most anything to put themselves right again and save their property. Now, if Miss Janice will marry me, there is n't any reason why you should n't all come back to Greenwood and live as fine as a fivepence." "We should not be willing to give thee our daughter, Mr.
"Couldn't you give it a pick-me-up?" "I'll jowl your head for impudence," said Mrs. Morel, and she tied the strings of the black bonnet valiantly under her chin. She glanced at the dish again. Both she and her enemy, the pot man, had an uncomfortable feeling, as if there were something between them. Suddenly he shouted: "Do you want it for fivepence?" She started.
We all know what all barrister coves looks forward to a seat on the hop sack. Well, I'll bet a bull to fivepence, that the grinner gets upon it, and the snarler doesn't; at any rate, that he gets there first.
"I found them, sir, at the bottom of the garden, torn to rags, sir!" "And sold 'em for fivepence! Eh, thrifty William?" "Sixpence, to be exact, sir!" The Colonel rushed me off, but I found time to give the rascal a crown, which put him sixpence in pocket. A servant ought to have his vails, and, besides, William's concern amused me a good crown's worth.
Helen thought as Tom did, that the English must indeed be fond of eggs, if they gave so much money for them. She had never seen her mother give more than fourpence or fivepence a dozen; and she thought she would ask, when she got home, whether it could really be as Tom said.
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