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Next year there happened to be good grass on Tom's selection and nowhere else, and he thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a few poor sheep, and fatten them up for market: sheep were selling for about seven-and-sixpence a dozen at that time. The dogs chased the sheep across the selection and into the run again on the other side, where another man waited ready to pound them.
I wrote, too, for the Literary Gazette, where the pay was less princely seven-and-sixpence a column, I think, but with all extracts deducted! The Gazette was then edited by John Morley, who came to the office daily with a big dog. "I well remember the time when you, a boy, came to me, a boy, in Catherine Street," wrote honest John to me years afterwards.
Sleuth kept his money in the centre drawer. The glass had only cost seven-and-sixpence, and, after the auction a dealer had come and offered her first fifteen shillings, and then a guinea for it. Not long ago, in Baker Street, she had seen a looking-glass which was the very spit of this one, labeled "Chippendale, Antique. £21 5s 0d." There lay Mr.
To the little tramp the whole thing was a new and entrancing game of make-believe. By evening they had seven-and-sixpence. "Us'll 'ave a fourpenny doss outer this," said Beale. "Swelp me Bob, we'll be ridin' in our own moty afore we know where we are at this rate." "But you said the bed with the green curtains," urged Dickie. "Well, p'rhaps you're right. Lay up for a rainy day, eh?
All congratulated me on my Good Fortune; and not wanting to make any unnecessary bustle about the affair, we took coach one fine Monday morning down to Fleet Market, and were married by a Fleet parson none other, indeed, than my old friend Chaplain Hodge, who had taken to this way of life and found it very profitable, marrying his twenty or thirty couple a week, when Business was brisk, at fees varying from five guineas to seven-and-sixpence, and from a dozen of Burgundy to half a pint of Geneva.
Because you are poor." "No, I have a pound a week still. I have been better off yes! I have been well off." "But how came you to live in Sapps Court?" "How came I?... Let me see!... I came there from Skillicks, at Sevenoaks, where I was last. Six shillings was too much for me alone. It is only seven-and-sixpence at Sapps for both of us. It was through poor Susan Burr that I came there.
A composition of seven-and-sixpence in the pound was offered, to be paid within a twelvemonth, with a further half- crown in two years' time, the debtor undertaking to give up his house in the Terrace.
Dale, for her own special pocket-money; what became of the second third he never owned even to his better half, but certain it was, that every time the parson won seven-and-sixpence, half-a-crown, which nobody could account for, found its way to the poor-box; while the remaining third, the parson, it is true, openly and avowedly retained; but I have no manner of doubt that, at the year's end, it got to the poor quite as safely as if it had been put into the box.
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