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Do marigolds bring luck?" Great-gran'mother, she died soon after, and gran'mother were sore disappointed not to find a few shillin's tied up in a stockin'. The cottage were sold, but gran'father bought it hisself, and moved into it with his family; and years passed, and then gran'father, he died of a fever, and gran'mother brought up eleven boys and girls wi' credit.
Quinn went on; "an' the atmosphere is kept moist by lettin' steam escape from pipes into the room where the linen is bein' woven a damp, muggy, steamy atmosphere, Henry ... an' Lizzie McCamley left this village ... left work in the fields there to go up to Belfast an' work in that for ten shillin's a week! An' that's what people calls progress!
Maybe he'll drink hisself to death." I e'en a'most told him outright what foolishness he was enterin' into, but he knowed it he knowed it because he said next time the man come 'twould be fifteen shillin's. An' next time 'twas. Just fifteen shillin's! 'An' was the man her father? asked Jabez. 'He had the proofs an' the papers.
"I tell 'e wot it is, messmate, when you comes for to see the miners in San Francisco drinkin' shampain like water, an' payin' a dollar for a glass o' six-water grog, you'll " "How much is a dollar?" inquired a soft-looking youth, interrupting him. Bill said it was "'bout four shillin's," and turned away with a look of contempt at such a display of ignorance.
She come to Jim in a candle-box with all the proper papers lawful child o' some couple in Lunnon somewheres mother dead, father drinkin'. And there was that Lunnon society's five shillin's a week for her. Jim's mother she wouldn't despise week-end money, but I never heard Jim was much of a muck-grubber.
Dennis Fannin 0 7 6 "Very good, indeed, for a working mason." Jemmy Riley 0 5 0 "Not bad for a hedge-carpenther." "I gave you ten, plaze, your reverence," shouted Jemmy, "and by the same token, you may remember it was on the Nativity of the Blessed Vargin, sir, I gave you the second five shillin's."
The ten minutes had barely passed when Sam'l was back in the farm kitchen. He was too flurried to knock this time, and, indeed, Lisbeth did not expect it of him. "Bell, hae!" he cried, handing his sweetheart a tinsel bag twice the size of Sanders' gift. "Losh preserve's!" exclaimed Lisbeth; "I'se warrant there's a shillin's worth." "There's a' that, Lisbeth an' mair," said Sam'l firmly.
She sed the sausingers wur sixpence each, an' twenty-vour slices o' bread an' butter wur a penny each two shillin's. I sed, "Do 'e call that reysonable, young 'ooman? 'cause I bain't a-gwain to pay thirteen shillin's vor't, an' lose me train, an' disappoint Sairy Jane.
I ga'e Gowans Donal' an' thirty shillin's, an' he ga'e me a he tortyshall kitlin' to the bute the only ane i' the countryside. He's genna hand it in the morn." There was nae want o' soond in Princie's wind at ony rate. I saw that in a minute. He was whistlin' like a lerik. "He sooks wind a little when he has a lang rin," says Sandy; "but that's nether here nor there.
"What does half a stone o' loaf sugar at two-three-farthings come to?" he asked. The Wonder shook his head. He did not understand the grocer's phraseology. "What is seven times two and three quarters?" translated Challis. "19·25," answered the Wonder. "What's that in shillin's?" asked Purvis. "Wrong!" returned the grocer triumphantly. "Er excuse me, Mr. Purvis," interposed Steven, "I think not.
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