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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Och, seven or eight shillin's anyway," said Paddy, in the tone of one to whom shillings had already become trivial coins; "and that, mind you, after you've ped for the best of aitin' and dhrinkin', and your kit free, and no call to be spendin' another penny unless you plase.
The most disgraceful thing on 'airth is a paupe" so Ithuel pronounced "pauper" "the next is a street-beggar; after him comes your chaps who takes sixpences and shillin's, in the way of small gifts; and last of all an Englishman. All these I despise; but let this Signore say but the word, in the way of trade, and he'll find me as ready and expairt as he can wish. I'd defy the devil in a trade!"
"With that leg you should have come by train." The old man smiled. "I hadn't the fare like," he said. "I only gets five shillin's a week, from the council, and two o' that I pays over to my son." Frances Freeland thrust her hand once more into that deep pocket, and as she did so she noticed that the old man's left boot was flapping open, and that there were two buttons off his coat.
"'Tis a rare big bean," he said, in the trembling quaver of old age, and with a mumbling laugh like that of a pleased child. "I'll give you two shillin's for it. I suppose you want money badly, or else you wouldn't be wanderin' about at ten o'clock at night tryin' to sell it. I hope you come by it honest, young man?"
"To hear the rector talk a Sunday night about it were grand, that it was; and, if it's money he wants, there isn't one of us that oughtn't to help him." "Rich fellers like you can talk about money!" retorted Allison, with withering scorn; "but for me, who makes every penny I earns, he may think hisself well off to get the five shillin's I gives him every year for those blessed schools.
Pacey here challenges your horse Multum-in-somethin' I forget what you said you call him but the nag I rode to-day. The two then put, say half a crown or five shillin's each, into his hand, to which the arbitrator adds the same sum for himself. Pacey's horse gives Mr. Now do you understand? continued Jack, addressing himself earnestly to Sponge.
Billy took the money, thanking the Lord. and impatiently waited for the sale. No sooner was the cupboard put up, than he called out, "Here, maister, here's six shillin's for un," and he put the money down on the table. "Six shillings bid," said the auctioneer "six shillings thank you; seven shillings; any more for that good old cupboard? Seven shillings. Going going gone!"
Musha sure Norah and meself was sayin' on'y on Saturday night that there wasn't many stookawns like me had fathers to be bringin' them home shillin's every week as regular as the clock, and givin' prisints to the childer, and all manner. There's little Maggie frettin' woful to be missin' you out of it.
This long while back I've put ne'er a penny in it, but when we used to be livin' up at Portnafoyle I'd slip in the odd shillin's now and agin, and sometimes I'd think 'twould be handy for buryin' me, and other times I'd think I'd give it to Tom as soon as I'd gathered a thrifle more, on'y some way the thought of partin' wid it 'ud seem to go agin me, and since poor Tom made a match with Martha M'Crum 'tis worse agin me it goes.
"`Miffy's lost! obsarved one o' my comrades as we got in among the bushes here an' prepared to fight it out. "`No great loss, remarked another. "`No fear o' Miffy, said Bounce, feelin' his nose tenderly, `he's a bad shillin', and bad shillin's always turn up, they say. "Bounce had barely finished when we heard another most awesome burst o' yellin' in the woods, followed by a deep roar.
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