six-eighty

Updated: June 18, 2025

Here is the very latest Among the Monkeys of New Guinea, ten dollars, reduced to four-fifty. The manufacture alone costs six-eighty. We're selling it out. Thank you, Judge. Send it? Yes. Good morning." After that the customers came and went in a string. I noticed that though the store was filled with books ten thousand of them, at a guess Mr. Sellyer was apparently only selling two.

Stephen Leacock - Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy