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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Oh! yes, yes," shouted the children; "let's do it all ourselves!" "I've got one-and-threepence, and sixpence next Saturday," cried Hal. "And I've eightpence," quoth Annie. "And I've a whole shilling," said David. "I've fourpence," said Johnnie. "I've not much, I'm afraid," said Susan, feeling in her pocket, with rather black looks.
They must have been very hungry, for even if they had carried the job through they could not have expected to make their fortunes. In point of fact, they would have cleared one-and-threepence. But when you're hungry you can see no further than the pit of your stomach. Do you know, I almost sympathise with the poor brutes.
She had been very much surprised, for a telephone message from London to Witanbury costs one-and-threepence, and James was careful about such things. When he did telephone, which was very seldom, he always waited to do so till the evening, when the fee was halved. But to-day James had rung up just before luncheon, and she had heard his voice almost as though he were standing by her side.
The British Tommy Atkins of that and many a later day thought Canada a wonderful country for making money go a long way when he could buy a pot of beer for twopence and get back thirteen pence Halifax currency as change for his English shilling. Beef and ham ran from ninepence to a shilling a pound. Mutton was a little dearer. Salt butter was eightpence to one-and-threepence.
"My son helped me." He had modestly calculated on averaging a shilling a volume for his books; but discovered on leaving the shop at Truro that it worked out at one-and-threepence. He returned to Nannizabuloe that night with one box only but it was packed full of tools and a copy of Fuller's "Holy State," which at the last moment had proved too precious to be parted with at least, just yet.
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