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The fertility of the soil of New Jersey, the salubrity of the climate, the exemption from fear of hostile Indians, and other manifest advantages caused a rapid increase in the population and prosperity of the province, and nothing disturbed the general serenity of society there until in 1670, when specified quitrents of a half-penny per acre were demanded. The people murmured.
"I'm bound to go on," said Dick, fiercely. "Is it moving, Regie?" "It's going down," screamed Regie, suddenly. "That it's not," said Dick, and he shook the child again, and the half-penny flew out upon the grass. "Thank God," said Dick, and he laid the gasping child on Hester's lap and turned away. A few minutes later Regie was laughing and talking, and feeling himself a hero.
The excellence of the music, the masses of flowers, the number of great names and well-advertised society beauties present, would subsequently provide material for long and eulogistic paragraphs in the half-penny press and the Ladies' Weeklies.
Here were two young people, one twenty-two, the other eighteen, with it could hardly be said "not a half-penny," but still a very small quantity of half-pennies, between them and they had not only fallen in love, but engaged themselves to married!
Believe me, good folks, this is not so inconsiderable a thing as many of you may think it; you have all, I dare say, heard of the animal spirits, as how they are transfused from father to son, &c. &c. and a great deal to that purpose: Well, you may take my word, that nine parts in ten of a man's sense or his nonsense, his successes and miscarriages in this world depend upon their motions and activity, and the different tracks and trains you put them into, so that when they are once set a-going, whether right or wrong, 'tis not a half-penny matter, away they go cluttering like hey-go mad; and by treading the same steps over and over again, they presently make a road of it, as plain and as smooth as a garden-walk, which, when they are once used to, the Devil himself sometimes shall not be able to drive them off it.
The Craw thinks her awn Bird fairest. They buy good cheap that brings nothing hame. Thraw the wand while it is green. The Sowter's wife is worst shod. They will know by an half-penny if a Preist will take offering. The worst world that ever was, some man wan. The Tailours wife is worst clad. Take him up there with his five Egges, and four of them rotten. Thy tongue is no slander.
Of this mileage something less than one-third is effected by railways, at an average cost of about six pence a mile. Our total mileage per day is 151,000 miles, of which 43,823 are done by railway, at a cost of about seven pence half-penny per mile. As far as I could learn, the servants of the post-office are less liberally paid in the States than with us, excepting as regards two classes.
Langholm gathered that it was actually in one of that morning's half-penny papers, at which he had not found time to glance in his hot-foot ardor for the chase. For the moment he was shocked beyond words, and not a little disgusted, to discover the cause of his own temporary importance. "Talk of the devil!" cried a comparative crony.
Inside there was still more highly seasoned literature even than the 'Freethinker' to be had. There was in particular a small half-penny paper which was understood to be in some sense the special organ of the North R Club; which was at any rate published close by, and edited by one of the workmen founders of the club.
And they have, it is true, some other temptations which come to them with a cheap press, such as 'la sureté financière, 'le moniteur des tirages financiers, 'le petit moniteur financier, &c., newspapers whose special business it is, to teach the people how to get rid of their savings, we are speaking, of course, of the comparatively uneducated agricultural population the farmers, all through the district we have come, especially near Vire and Falaise, being rich propriétaires and investing largely; and there are many other things in these half-penny French newspapers which find their way into these remote corners of France, which must make the curé sometimes regret that he had taught his flock to read.
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