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Arrived there, after a forty miles' walk, he refreshed himself with a glass of beer and a penn'orth of bread and cheese, and proceeded at once to Farmer Ferryman in quest of work. The farmer, who was, as usual, in want of labour, sent him to Snarley Bob to "put the measure on him." Snarley's report was favourable.
"Then you must all come to Clewes," decided Aunt Beatrice, after some remonstrance. "That'll settle it." "But my work!" ejaculated Ian in dismay. "How am I to get on at Clewes, away from the libraries?" "There are some things in life more important than books, Ian," returned Lady Thomson. "But it won't do a penn'orth of good," broke in Tims, argumentatively.
My wife, her feels, too when a man's been down so long as it does him a sight o' good to get a mouthful o' pride, and six penn'orth o' praise to make him hold his head up." "St. George was dull yesterday," observed John Mortimer, when he and his father were alone the next morning in the bank parlour.
He was in the Three Widders at Aldgate, in the saloon bar which is a place where you get a penn'orth of ale in a glass and pay twopence for it and, arter being told by the barmaid that she had got one monkey at 'ome, he got into conversation with another man wot was in there. He was a big man with a black moustache and a red face, and 'is fingers all smothered in di'mond rings.
Meanwhile, Mrs Partridge had spent a pleasant day conducting Chook's business on new lines. She had always suspected that she had a gift for business, and here was an opportunity to prove it. The first customer was a child, sent for three penn'orth of potatoes.
I'm fearin' graave for the big stack; an' theer's three paarts o' last year's hay beside, an' two tidy lil mows of the aftermath. So sure's the waters do rise another foot and a half, 'tis 'good-by' to the whole boilin'. Not but 'twill be a miracle for the stream to get much higher. A penn'orth o' frost now would save a pound of produce from wan end o' Carnwall to t'other."
"You don't give your orders, neither," said Beale contentedly. The curtains and a penn'orth of tacks, a hammer borrowed from a neighbor, and an hour's cheerful work completed the fortification of the Englishman's house against the inquisitiveness of passers-by. But the landlord frowned anxiously as he went past the house.
"Let's go out and get the paper directly after tea." We did, but we could only get fifteen different kinds of paper and envelopes, though we went to every shop in the village. At the first shop, when we said, "Please we want a penn'orth of paper and envelopes of each of all the different kinds you keep," the lady of the shop looked at us thinly over blue-rimmed spectacles and said, "What for?"
Sometimes when better off than usual I get a heap of coals at a time, perhaps quarter of a hundredweight, because I save a farthing by getting the whole quarter, an' that lasts me a long time, and wi' the farthing I mayhap treat myself to a drop o' milk. Sometimes, too, I buy my penn'orth o' wood from the coopers and chop it myself, for I can make it go further that way.
David felt in his pockets. There was eighteenpence in them, the remains of half-a-crown a strange gentleman had given him in Clough End the week before for stopping a runaway horse. In he stalked. 'Two penn'orth of gin hot! he commanded. The girl serving the bar brought it and stared at him curiously.
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