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I get 'em at a shop in the Commercial Road, at the rate of fifteen for a shillin'! I find it pays a lot better than buyin' four briars at one-and-six apiece; for, you see, when you've lost or smashed four briars, why, they're done for; but when you've lost or smashed four clays and I find that they last a'most as long as briars why, I've still a good stock of pipes to fall back upon.
His writing is trim, his accounts in good form and correctly figured. But it was more a fashion in that day to spell as pronounced, and his orthography gives us a personal sense of the period. "To plowin garding ... 2 shillin." You can almost hear him say that, while "To haulin stun" likewise carries the fine old flavor.
"You'll give me two shillin'?" repeated Jim, incredulously, for he remembered how he had wronged Paul. "Yes," said Paul. "Here's the money;" and he drew a twenty-five-cent piece from his vest pocket, and handed it to Jim. "You give me that after the mean trick I played you?" said Jim. "Yes; I am sorry for you and want to help you along." "You're a brick!" exclaimed Jim, emphatically.
'Aweel, the ancient continued, 'the Meenister can be the stake-holder, an' the landlord can set ye awa as the clock strikes twalve the morrow nicht. If ye win through to the manse your lane ye'll hae won my shillin'; if no', the Meenister will hae a sovereign i' the ladle next Sawbath.
"It's agin the law, so it is," shouted an angry woman. "I'm a policeman's wife, an' I know what I'm talking about. I'll have the law of the nasty mean hound, so I will, with his shillin' for a fivepenny loaf, indeed!"
Hosy, I do believe if you'd given him another shillin' he'd have introduced us to that man in the red robe and cotton wool wig What did he call him? Oh, yes, the Lord Chief Justice. And I suppose you'd have had to tip HIM, too." The first two weeks of our stay in London came to an end. Our plans were still as indefinite as ever.
"Oh, don't I! You give me the shillin', and you'll see." Sam hesitated, but there was no time to lose. It seemed to be his only policy to make friends with this young ruffian, and he finally took a shilling out of his pocket, the action being grasped at once by the lad in spite of the darkness. "No games," said Sam. "If I give you the shilling, will you tell me fairly?" "Course I will."
"May be not," replied the old sailor, drily; "but you'll find it too stiff for you to-night, anyhow. Howsomdever, if you should reach t'other side, take an old feller's advice, and don't be foolhardy enough to venter back again." "I tell 'ee what, saltwater," said Ben, "I'll lay you my fare and that'll be two shillin' I'm back in an hour." "Done!" cried the old sailor.
Pooty nigh all on ye, as fit agen the King, is beggars naow, or next door tew it. Everybudy hez a kick fer a soldier. Ye'll fine em mosly in the jails an the poorhaouses. Look at you fellers as wuz a huntin me. Ther's Meshech on the floor, a drunken, worthless cuss. Thar ye be, Abner, 'thout a shillin in the world, nor a foot o' lan', yer dad's farm gone fer taxes. An thar be ye, Peleg.
I won'er now what len'th they'd give you for one shillin'?" But Ody, who had not been listening, only said, oracularly: "Och! that's accordin'," which did not materially assist Hugh's speculations.
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