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"As I'm afraid it would take me all night, I would prefer to give you a half-a-dollar to do it for me," said Deringham. The man straightened himself a little, and Deringham received another surprise. "Patent medicines and hair-growers are up?" said he. "I don't quite understand," said Deringham quietly. "No?" said the other. "Well, you will do presently unless you get right out of this shanty.
But as I was comin' back, I says to myself, says I, `Larry, ye'll be the better of a small glass o' somethin' eh! So in I goes to a grog-shop, and faix I had to pay half-a-dollar for a thimbleful o' brandy, bad luck to them, as would turn the stomik o' a pig. I almost had a round wi' the landlord; but they towld me it wos the same iverywhere.
You give a nigger a plain gill of half-a-dollar brandy for five cents will he touch it? No. Ain't size enough to it. But you put up a pint of all kinds of worthless rubbish, and heave in some red stuff to make it beautiful red's the main thing and he wouldn't put down that glass to go to a circus. All the bars on this Anchor Line are rented and owned by one firm.
Mackay himself, whose annual $13,750,000 give him $1560 per hour, or half-a-dollar to spend every second of his life.
This was followed by a steady decline to the extent of half-a-dollar, and, as the reports came, it "looked like going lower," which it did. On the morning of the third day the Syrchester paper was brought in about ten o'clock, as usual, and laid on Mr. Harum's desk. John shivered a little, and for some time refrained from looking at it.
Angelo, a merchant from Zanzibar, resided two months at Bulhar; his broker of the Ayyal Gedid tribe, and an Arab who accompanied him, extracted, it is said, 3000 dollars. As a rule the Abban claims one per cent. on sales and purchases, and two dollars per head of slaves. For each bale of cloth, half-a-dollar in coin is taken; on gums and coffee the duty is one pound in twenty-seven.
You see, these are special imported Italian bees, Breeders. I reckon every one of those beauties is worth half-a-dollar. They're very delicate in this climate, and call for great care. I want you to instruct the messenger to follow the directions carded on the boxes." "I can do that," said Pope. "What he will do, is another thing."
They sent their wives and daughters to hear the Slattery female defame women who had given up the pleasures of the world and were devoting their lives to the reclamation of such unclean creatures as herself. Slattery's last harangue was delivered to men only and the house was packed with Baptists and Baylorites at half-a-dollar a head.
It's becawz he can't help it. But why he should woluntarily go and live in Washinton, is intirely beyond my comprehension, and I can't say no fairer nor that. I put up to a leadin hotel. I saw the landlord and sed, "How d'ye do, Square?" "Fifty cents, sir," was his reply. "Sir?" "Half-a-dollar. We charge twenty-five cents for LOOKIN at the landlord and fifty cents for speakin to him.
"Go on and take it," Morganson insisted. The barkeeper held the sack mouth downward over the scales and shook it, and a few flakes of gold dust fell out. Morganson took the sack from him, turned it inside out, and dusted it carefully. "I thought there was half-a-dollar in it," he said. "Not quite," answered the other, "but near enough. I'll get it back with the down weight on the next comer."
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