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Updated: June 16, 2025
Entering the first that appeared, "Good morning, Smith, give me half-a-dollar." "Well, now, colonel, you are " "Never mind if I am I must have it!" It came. He entered another. "Hello! colonel, what's new?" "I want a half-dollar from you!" "What for?" "None of your business I want the money." He got it. He entered a third. "Hello, Bob! Anything new on eter " "Never mind, I must have fifty cents!"
I looked at him, an' then down agin, an' began tenderin' up a stun-bruise on one heel agin the other instep, an' all I says was, bein' so dum'd shy, 'I dunno, I says. But I guess he seen in my face what my feelin's was, fer he kind o' laughed an' pulled out half-a-dollar an' says: 'D' you think you could git a couple o' tickits in that crowd?
As it would have been a long steep walk back, and I was very tired, we called to one of the numerous fishing boats near the shore, and were quickly conveyed round to our original starting place. Before we said good-bye, one of the old priests implored to be allowed to dive into the water for half-a-dollar. His request was complied with, and he caught the coin most successfully.
"It's a concert admission, half-a-dollar." "I'm not a-goin' to give half-a-dollar to go in here. I hire a pew in this here church by the year, and I've a right to go in whenever the door's open." So in he went with his dog.
Then she related how Ed had come back from the stocking mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, to find her and Lizzie grown up, and what an accomplished young man he was, and how he thought nothing of squandering half-a-dollar for ice-cream and oysters to celebrate his entry as clerk into the woollen department of Macy's.
The sailor was very anxious to know if the little creek in which the Bonadventure was moored, had been visited by the convicts. "These gentlemen," he observed, "landed on the south coast, and if they followed the shore, it is to be feared that they may have discovered the little harbour, and in that case, I wouldn't give half-a-dollar for our Bonadventure."
An enterprising man had put up a shanty near the track, with a long shelf in front, upon which were displayed sandwiches, pies, boiled eggs, and other eatables. The men all rushed out of the car. Mr. Klegg had begun to feel hungry himself, and joined them. "How much for that pie?" he asked, pointing to one. "Half-a-dollar," answered the keeper.
A half-a-dollar is equal to an English florin; but no coin was handed over four sticks ot tobacco costing the trader about ten cents, was the equivalent. So my friend decided to show the natives that he could do without them as far as his fish supply went.
Didn't I see you in Southern Missouri last summer selling colored sand at half-a-dollar a teaspoonful to put into lamps to keep the oil from exploding? "'Oil, says I, 'never explodes. It's the gas that forms that explodes. But I shakes hands with him, anyway.
We'll remember that, later." Scripps glanced over a pasteboard sheet on his desk, first asking Andy his name and age, and writing his answers down in a big-paged book. "Half-a-dollar a day and keep, for the present," he said. "All right," nodded Andy "it's a start." "Just so. Let me see. Ah, here we are. Report to the Wild Man of Borneo side top at twelve." "Yes, sir."
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