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Updated: June 19, 2025
The ordinary purse-carrying Englishman holds in his head a ready-reckoner or scale of charges by which he tests his purchases so much for a dinner, so much for a bottle of champagne, so much for a trip to Paris, so much for a pair of gloves, and so much for a book. These ten volumes would cost him £4 9s. 3d. 'Whew!
The old lady said he stopped in at our house yesterday morning to sell me a ready-reckoner." Sol chuckled, perhaps over what he considered a narrow escape. "I was over at Shelbyville, on the jury, and I wasn't there, so he didn't sell it. Been tryin' to for a week. He told the old lady that was his last day here, and he was leavin' then."
Fortunately a third party arrived on the battlefield, the Alsatian's husband, of the same race; a roadside innkeeper, as well as a very good ready-reckoner, which was better. When he saw what kind of a customer he had to deal with a slaughterer who only wanted to pay the value of his victim he disarmed his better-half, and they came to an understanding.
Morgan was to have his breakfast and supper each day, and provender for his horse, at the rate of four dollars a week, payable in advance. Morgan ran over his compendiums and horse books, but Isom was firm for cash; he suggested at least one ready-reckoner on account, but Isom had no need of that.
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