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Th' singers fell out wi' th' players. They mostly dun do. An' th' players did everything they could to plague th' singers. They're so like. But yo' may have a like aim, Nanny, what mak' o' harmony they'd get out o' sich wark as that. An' then, when Joss o' Piper's geet his wage raise't five shillin' a year Dick o' Liddy's said he'd ha' moor too, or else he'd sing no moor at that shop.
"You'll get my likeness tu, I s'pose, same as the photograph man done it last winter to Penzance? Me an' Joe was took side by side, an' folks reckoned 'twas the moral of us, specially when the gen'leman painted Joe's hair black an' mine yeller for another shillin' cost." "It must have been very excellent." "Iss, 'twas for sartain." "What did Mr. Tregenza say of it?"
"Where's that shillin' you owe me?" said Beetle suddenly. Stalky could not see Prout behind him, but returned the lead without a quaver. "I only owed you ninepence, you old usurer." "You've forgotten the interest," said McTurk. "A halfpenny a week per bob is Beetle's charge. You must be beastly rich, Beetle." "Well, Beetle lent me sixpence."
"I remember very well knowing you, years ago, before you were so famous, Mr. Lauder," he said. "I don't just recall the circumstances I think we appeared together at some concerts that was before I unfortunately lost my voice " Aweel, I minded the circumstances, if he did not, but I had no the heart to remind him! And I "lent" him the twa shillin' he asked.
It was a stranger a young farmer from two parishes away who let off the first guffaw. "A bet, naybours! did 'ee hear that? Take him up, little man he won't eat 'ee." "I'll go ten shillin' myself, rather than miss it," announced another voice. "Ten shillin' on the bantam!" "Get out with 'ee both," spoke up a citizen of Troy. "You don't know the men.
"She'll like to have the feel of money in her hands again," thought the little woman. "I'll trust her with a shillin'. Lor', I hope she'll be careful with it. Twelve pennies can do a mint ef they're spent careful."
I suppose we can call it square if we each hands in sixpence, which is the price o' your paper, and then you can tell us what's on." O'Flaherty considered for a moment. "It's worth a shillin' each," he said, "for it plays the divil with the circulation of a paper whin its news gits out too soon." "Well, we won't stick at that," said the miner. "What say you, boys?"
"He looks like a beadle in a dissentin' church, with a long, skinny neck, a pasty face, and a cockney accent. I went to see him, and he talked like an underdone curate who had had a bad night. When he got off the ship, where he owed everybody, includin' the smokin'-room, he came to see me with some crazy papers for me to sign. He said then he had not a shillin', and I advised him to go to work.
"I've two hundred poun' an' six shillin' in my pocket an' a lot more hid in the bush. It's all yourn to the last round penny. I reckon it'll purty nigh bridge the slough. I want ye to be married respectable like a gentleman slick duds, plenty o' cakes an' pies an' no slightin' the minister er the rum bar'l. "Major Washington give me a letter to take to Ben Franklin on t'other side o' the ocean.
"Dear knows, it's hard set we are to live these times at all." "Is it sixpence, woman alive!" cried Pat; "I wonder they had the face to offer it to ye. Well, well, I was looking for a shillin' now, or maybe two. Here, cut the child a bit o' griddle cake; she's been keepin' me company this long while, haven't ye, Roseen? An' it's starvin' she is out-an'-out." "Come here, alanna," said Mrs.
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