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Run up to the corner and get some lamb chops, that's a good boy." She tossed him a half-dollar. "And get ready for dinner when you come back." He set off thoughtfully, for the problem of earning still annoyed him. He hated to fall down on the newly made resolution the very first week. If it were only winter and a heavy snow falling!
Nicholas supped with his white friends, and seemed bent on passing the night with them. He had to be bribed with tobacco and a new half-dollar to go home and keep Christmas in the bosom of his family. And still, at the door, he hesitated, drew back, and laid the silver coin on the table. "No. It nights." "But it isn't really dark." "Pretty soon heap dark."
The unhappy creature, who had probably sold my Tobacco-stopper for a few joes, or been deluded out of it by the Obeah Man, and was afraid of being flogged if discovery were made thereof, positively denied that I had given her anything beyond the half-dollar.
He rose, seized his hat, jammed it over his ears, slapped a half-dollar upon the table, and strode from the restaurant. This is what the read-headed man had read in the despatch; this is what Blix had written: "ALL IS DISCOVERED. FLY AT ONCE."
One may know him by a small blue badge with a silver stamp in the form of a half-dollar souvenir upon his coat. 'Oh!
He stopped speaking and stopped getting up at the same time. A glint of silver on the sidewalk back of Mr. Barton caught his eye. It was a half-dollar! Jerry sank to a sitting posture and gazed in rapt wonder at this answer to an unsaid prayer. "You are hurt!" cried Mr. Barton solicitously and stooped to help Jerry up. "Where does it pain you?"
"I've got a big piece o' that new red Sunday dress o' her's," said Sammy, going to his storehouse and producing it. "I cribbed it once, to make me a flag or something, when I'd be out fightin' the Injuns. Will that do you?" "Bully," said Shorty, with the first joyous emotion since the reception of the letter. "It's jest the thing. Here's a half-dollar for you. Now, Sammy, kin you write?"
That is one of the ways in which free coinage of silver removes prejudices against the white metal; no one thinks of objecting to a Mexican dollar as a half-dollar, and our boys, paid in American gold, have a feeling that their wages are raised because all over the city one of their dollars counts two in the settlement of debts. These useful American dollars are admitted free of duty.
She will pay every time we stop, if it is six times a day. "Shall I give the man a half-dollar at once," I ask, "and let that do for a week?" "No, indeed! How mean I should feel, sneaking off without paying!" When the roadside shows a patch of tender grass, Kate eyes it, and checks Soldier's pace. He knows what that means, and edges toward the tempting herbage.
There were times when not even Boone would cross Wilbur, and this was one of them. Pierre went on: "The reason I can't go to Morgan town is that I'm not very well liked by some of the men there." "Why not?" "When my father died there was no money to pay for his burial. I had only a half-dollar piece. I went to the town and gambled and won a great deal.
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