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"Fifteen shillings!" from someone deep hidden in the crowd. "Start as low as you like, gentlemen! I am offered a miserable fifteen shillings for a genuine, hand-painted " "Sixteen!" this from a long, loose-limbed fellow with a patch over one eye, and another on his cheek. "A pound!" said Adam, promptly. "A guinea!" nodded he of the patches. "Twenty-five shillin's!" said Adam.
"But, faith, whin I'd been here a week, I seen that there was nawthin' but mud undher th' pavement, I larned that be means iv a pick-axe at tin shillin's th' day, an' that, though there was plenty iv goold, thim that had it were froze to it; an' I come west, still lookin' f'r mines. Th' on'y mine I sthruck at Pittsburgh was a hole f'r sewer pipe. I made it. Siven shillin's th' day.
I want something wot's been used by you, and I've got a fancy for that as a keepsake." The second mate shook 'is 'ead. "I'm sorry, Bill," 'e says, gently, "but I couldn't let it go at that." "I'd sooner pay thirty shillin's than not 'ave it, sir," says Bill, 'umbly. "I gave a lot of money for that mattress," says the mate, ag'in. "I forgit 'ow much, but a lot.
An' I didn't know Sophy wor gone. Ah, well! it's not much, but it's 'andy it's 'andy." "Six shillin's a week!" said Watson, raising his eyebrows. "It's a nice bit o' money while it lassts, but I'd ha' thought Mrs. Costrell 'ad come into a deal more nor that." "Oh, but she's sich a one to spend, is Bessie!" said John, anxiously. "It's surprisin' 'ow the money runs.
Ere's your twenty shillin's, Mr. Butterfield. I wish I'd a 'undred sovereigns as good as this." And Mr. Jim departed. Mr. Furze lost no time in communicating his discovery to his wife. "Furze," she said, "you're a fool: where's the sovereign? You haven't got it, but how are you to prove now that he has got it? We are just where we were before.
"Keep cool, Jim! keep cool!" said Shif'less Sol. "Don't shoot. They don't want to kill you; they jest want to rob you." "Depends on what they want to rob me uv," replied Long Jim with a grin. "I never had more'n ten shillin's at one time in my life, an' I've got a purty strong grip on my rifle an' the clothes that I hev on." "I think we'd better go ashore an' do a little scoutin'," said Tom Ross.
I canna bide there, she said presently, in a sharp, discontented voice. 'An' here ye've gar'd me miss the last car. 'Where are you staying in Maryhill? 'I have a place, me an' anither lassie, she said guardedly. 'If ye are flush, ye micht gie me twa shillin's for a cab. I'm no' able to walk.
Meenisters only work yae day a week, an' only aboot two hoors at that. They hae clean claes to wear, a fine white collar every day, an' sae mony claes that they can put on a different rig-oot every day. Their work is no' hard, an' look at the pay they get; no' like your faither wi' his two or three shillin's a day.
"So, your honor, considherin' everything, we're willin' to offer thirty shillin's an acre for the farm. That rint, sir, we'll be able to pay, wid the help o' God, for sure we can do nothin' widout his assistance, glory be to his name!
Ten shillin's worth of stuff in that. An' ten for the makin'. An' that's twinty. I'll take ten, an' I couldn't afford to take a penny less. Will ye have it? Don't all spake at once. Ye won't. But I'll make ye. I'll take five shillin', four, three, two, one, I'll take sixpence. Here! Have it for thruppence. Ye won't? Sweet bad luck to the one of ye is worth thruppence.
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