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Updated: July 5, 2025
When we joined Dall we found, to our utter dismay, that it was five o'clock; we bundled ourselves pêle-mêle into the boat and bade the boatman row, row, for dear life; but while we were indulging in the picturesque he had been indulging in fourpenny, which made him very talkative, and his tongue went faster than his arms.
Thus variety was achieved by houses otherwise as monotonous and prosaic as a batch of fourpenny loaves.
"Strong place in its way," said Kettle, squinting up at the brass cannon on the walls. "Those guns up there are well kept, you can see. Of course one of our cheapest fourpenny gunboats could knock the whole shop into bricks in half an hour at three-mile range; but it's strong enough to hold out against any niggers along the coast here, and that's all the Queen here aims at.
"I sha'n't," I cried angrily. "Come down, you thief." "If you call me a thief I'll come down and half smash you. Let go!" His courage returned as he found out who was his captor, and he kicked out savagely, but I held on. "Do you hear?" he cried. "Here, let go, and I'll give you a fourpenny piece out of my next pocket-money." "You come down to Mr Brownsmith," I cried. "Get out!
We hate new names so much that we have not yet got beyond talking of fourpenny bits." "There's a great deal in a name; isn't there? You don't think they'll call them Pallisers, or Palls, or anything of that sort; do you? I shouldn't like to hear that under the new régime two lollypops were to cost three Palls.
"I have some money," I said, "I have three shillings, and two sixpences, and seven pennies, besides my gold pound." "And I have some too, and so has Racey," said Tom. "Yes, I have a s'illing, and a dear little fourpenny, and three halfpennies," said Racey, running to fetch his purse. "I've more than that," said Tom in a melancholy tone of voice, "but it's no good. How can we buy anything?
He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little higher, and he seemed both weak and excited. "Jim," he said, "you're the only one here that's worth anything; and you know I've always been good to you. Never a month but I've given you a silver fourpenny for yourself.
Hence it is that the fourpenny restaurants are supplied; hence it is that the itinerant venders of gingerbread find their first material. Let any man who eats bread at any very cheap place in the capital take warning, if his stomach goes against the idea of a rechauffe of bread from the dust-hole.
"Ma Bogart cussed her out all morning, did she? Jumped her neck, eh? Ma certainly is one hell-cat." "Yes, you know how she is; so vicious." "Oh no, her best style ain't her viciousness. What she pulls in our store is to come in smiling with Christian Fortitude and keep a clerk busy for one hour while she picks out half a dozen fourpenny nails. I remember one time " "Sam!" Carol was uneasy.
The carving of ham is an art, a fourpenny piece representing the maximum of thickness which the lean should obtain. With a carving-knife and fork this ideal is not too easy of attainment, but with these small blunt tools it requires a first-rate workman to approach it. Now this slice, which I sacrifice on the altar of friendship, is, I regret to say, fully as thick as a shilling."
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