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Updated: June 27, 2025
Joe's daughter-in-law, the same described by Joe the other evening as the woman of a high spirit, was to-day absent on an errand to the town; and Edith, who loved children, stopped at the threshold to notice two or three little curly-headed prattlers, who were playing together at grotto making, an amusement which cost grandfather many a half-penny.
Hence the motley mixture of all ranks and orders that crowd the deck. Besides these half-penny boats, there are others which run at double and quadruple fares; but they carry a different class of passengers, and run greater distances, stopping at intermediate stations. They are all remunerative speculations; and they may be said to have created the traffic by which they thrive.
And it was magnificent that they had got Henry Wiltram, with his idealism and his really heavy corn tax; not caring what happened to the stunted products of the towns and they truly were stunted, for all that the Radicals and the half-penny press said till at all costs we could grow our own food. There was a lot in that.
She conducted me to Moscow, put down my name for the university, and gave up her soul to the Almighty, leaving me in the hands of my uncle, the attorney Koltun-Babur, one of a sort well-known not only in the Shtchigri district. My uncle, the attorney Koltun-Babur, plundered me to the last half-penny, after the custom of guardians.... But again that's neither here nor there.
What hair-breadth escapes did I meet with? I have been asked. Was I ever marooned? Ever cast away, as Jack says, on the top crust of a half-penny loaf? Ever overboard among sharks? Ever gazing madly round the horizon, the sole occupant of a frizzling boat, in search of a ship where I might obtain water to cool my blue and frothing lips?
You see the landing-stage or pier is divided into two equal portions; the people who are leaving the boat have not yet paid their fare; they will have to disburse their coppers at the office where we paid ours, there being but one paying-place for the two termini. 'Tis a motley company, you see, which comes and goes by the half-penny boat.
"'I then took out, begad, a daicent lot of silver say a crown or so for my blood was up and the money was flush and gave it to her for which I got a cronagh-bawn* half-penny in exchange. * So-called from Cronebane, in the county of Wicklow, where there is a copper mine.
"No," said I. "I am afraid I didn't." Which was true. "Why didn't you tell me?" "I would have asked you to dinner, but you will never come. As for At Home cards I never dream of sending them to you. It is a waste of precious half-penny stamps." "You might have written me a nice little letter about nothing at all," I suggested.
Hockin then, and had not a half-penny of his own; but Flittamore met that difficulty by robbing her husband to his last farthing. This had happened about twelve years back, soon after I was placed at the school in Languedoc, to which I was taken so early in life that I almost forget all about it.
"They seem to manage the club very well." "Perfectly well. Here are their own rules. They made them. I never interfere with them, except to advise them when they ask me." One half-penny per week to be paid to the club by each member Each member to draw the beer in order, according to the number of his allotment; on failing, a forfeit of twopence to be paid to the club.
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