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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Seven sausingers, dree and sixpence; twenty-vour slices o' bread an' butter, two shillin's; an' a bottle of shampane, seven and sixpence; kums to thirteen shillin's," she sed. "Yer tell'd me as how the sausingers wur sixpence," I sed; "an' the slices o' bread ud cut off a tuppeny loaf."
"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. "I thank ye, Sam'l," said Bell, feeling an unwonted elation as she gazed at the two paper bags in her lap. "Ye're ower-extravegint, Sam'l," Lisbeth said. "Not at all," said Sam'l; "not at all.
"The night the 'Clacton Schottische' was danced for the first time," replied Poulter. "And what do you think the refreshments was contracted at a 'ead?" asked Miss Nippett. "Give it up," replied Mavis. "Why, no less than three shillin's, wasn't it, Mr Poulter?" "True enough," replied Mr Poulter.
However, I wasn't goin' to be beat by that cove, so I say to 'im, Jack, I says, I planted it so a purpus, an' w'en it sprouts I'm a-goin' to 'ang it up to see if it won't grow through the 'ole in the bottom. In the second place, I couldn't retain the sitivation 'cause I don't intend to take it, though you was to offer me six thousand no shillin's an' no pence no farthin's a year as salary.
Mr Bones took no notice of the boy at first, but became annoyed at last by the pertinacity of his attention. "Well, you chunk of ebony," he said, "how much are you paid a week for starin'?" "No pound no shillin's an' nopence, massa, and find myself," replied the negro so promptly that Bones smiled in spite of himself.
"Four shillin's!" exclaimed the soft youth, in amazement. "Clear the anchor, and clew up the main-topsail," shouted the mate. In another moment the crew were scattered, some aloft to "lay out" on the topsail yard, some to the clew-lines, and some to clear the anchor, which latter had not been disturbed since the Roving Bess left the shores of Old England.
Ye never heard hoo he laid it into them, steekin' his nivs an' layin' aboot him wi' his airms. "Echt thoosand pound!" he roars again. "That's seven shillin's the heid man, woman, and bairn i' the toon o' Arbroath. What d'ye think o' that? But that's no' a'. There's the toon's midden, too; that's needin' a look intil."
Callaghan looked doubtfully at the piece of English silver produced by the woman, and turned it round between her finger and thumb. 'I say, squire, stop a minute: what sort o' money's this? 'A crown-piece sterling; you'll give six shillings and a penny currency for it, answered Mr. Wynn. 'Now I guess that's what I don't understand, said Liberia. 'Why ain't five shillin's the same everywhar?
'And I, too, yer honour, am payin' five-and-twenty shillin's for the same flooded land. Yer honour can come down any day and see it. It is not worth, to me, more than fifteen shillings an acre at the bare outside.
She receives the visitor and the visitor's remarks with an air quite unconscious of tragic meditation; and her honest labour-stained hand sweeps over the things on the table. "Cheese!" she says, at last "eightpence the 'arf pound!" A pause. The hand points in another direction. "Lard sevenpence that scrubby little piece! Sugar! sixpence 'a'penny the pound. The best part of two shillin's gone!
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