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He was a half-starved Frenchman, who had run away from his own country, and would soon run away from theirs; they profoundly pitied him and his soldiers; they would scorn to spend powder on such scarecrows; they would rather feed and clothe them, as being poor white slaves, hired to be shot at, and starved for fourpence a day.
Having thus, by a liberal system of feeding and clothing, rendered him strong for labor, you must work him from dark to dark pay him fourpence a day for three quarters of the year, with permission to beg or starve for the remainder.
But Stalky had maintained for two terms that the money was his "commission" for effecting the pawn; and had, of course, spent it on a study "brew." "Understand this, then. You are not to continue your operations as a money-lender. Two and fourpence, you said, Corkran?" Stalky had said nothing, and continued so to do.
Portions of shares could be purchased for as low a sum as fourpence, and the Hamburg Senate, in self-defence, and with a great show of propriety, prohibited the traffic of them among servants and apprentices: which prohibition passed, of course, for next to nothing, seeing that the temptation was very strong, and the injunction very weak.
Everyone above fifteen years old had to pay fourpence, and the collectors were often very rude and insolent. A man named Wat Tyler, in Kent, was so angry with a rude collector as to strike him dead. All the villagers came together with sticks, scythes, and flails; and Wat Tyler told them they would go to London, and tell the king how his poor commons were treated.
"There is no change," said Crow, sulkily; "they were sixpence each." "What's the use of saying that, when they are stuck up fourpence- halfpenny each in the window, you young thief?" "You can get them yourself, then," replied the injured Crow. "I'll go no more jobs for you there! I'm not the junior now, and I'm hanged if I'll put up with it."
"At the end of the war, finding my appointments reduced to two shillings and fourpence per day, and being addicted to pleasures which I could not possibly purchase from such a fund, I sold my half-pay for two hundred pounds, which I lent upon bond to a young officer of the same regiment, on condition that he should insure his life, and restore one-fourth part of the sum by way of premium.
It was nearly all in cents; but then there was one fourpence which a lady gave him for a four-wheeled wagon that he made. He kept this money in a corner of his drawer, and, at last, there was quite a handful of it. One summer evening, when Georgie's father came home from his work, he hung up his hat, and came and sat down in Georgie's corner, by the side of his little boy.
George down, not to four hundred a year, but to fourpence a day; and still leave him all these other and enormous financial superiorities.
Ginger was going to buy a sausage-roll for it, but, arter Sam 'ad pointed out that they was paying me fourpence a day for its keep, he didn't. And Sam 'ad the cheek to tell me that it liked a nice bit o' fried steak as well as anything. A lot o' people admired that dog.
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