four-and-a-penny

Updated: May 29, 2025

That's what you want, more gluten; no corpses, no dead bodies. Why, I've known young fellows, vegetarians, who have lived like fighting cocks on sevenpence a day. Seven times seven are forty-nine. How much do you pay for your room?" I told him. "Four-and-a-penny and two-and-six makes six-and-seven. That leaves you five and fivepence for mere foolery. Good God! what more do you want?"

Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome - Paul Kelver, a Novel