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O'Mara's murder, that right over the mountain an unfortunate postman was shot on the public road between Crusheen and Baliluran for no other reason apparently than that another fellow wanted his job of one and six-pence a day!
And why? simply because in one case the belligerents would be fighting for the traditions and independence of the land of their love, while in the other they would, as a general, thing, be fighting for about six-pence a day.
Then take the Pressings, and infuse them again in Brandy, for six or seven Days, and distil them. This they call double Cologn's Gin, and the best is sold in Holland, at three Shillings and Six-pence per Quart. To make Scots-Snuff, or pure Tobacco-Snuff. From Mr. Hyslop.
Then I drank the speerits and was just settlin' doon to the beer, tryin' to make it spin oot as long as I could; for, ye ken, it's comfortable in here, when an emissary o' the deevil, wi' hands like shovels and a leer in his e'e, came in and picked up the tumbler frae under my very nose and swallowed the balance o' your six-pence before I could say squeak."
"Six-pence to begin with," said the constable. "Seven-pence," cried another voice. "Eight-pence," stammered poor Raphael. "Nine-pence," replied the other. "Ten-pence," said Raphael, gasping for breath.
"What is up here?" the cabman asked. "Do you see this young snip?" the boys cried, "He pretends to drive a cab!" "Yes, I do see him," said the cabman. "I see you, too. You'd better take yourselves away from here or you won't find me very agreeable!" And they went in a hurry! When Diamond went home that night, he carried one pound, one shilling and six-pence.
On the South Downs I know some plantations of this tree, which have been sold, after twenty-five years growth, at a price which averaged a profit of twenty shillings per annum per acre, on land usually let for sheep-pasture at one shilling and six-pence. POPULUS alba. WHITE POPLAR. This is a very ornamental tree.
We had been under way an hour. He had got sixty revolutions now. He then receded into the gloom beyond; but materialized again, or, to be exact, the white stare of two disembodied eyes appeared, and the same voice said that it had won seventeen and six-pence last night, but there was something funny about the way the skipper shuffled cards.
So, though we'd broken a six-pence together and I had my half, I looked upon her as ever so much beyond me and out of my reach, and didn't see any harm in amusing myself with any woman that I might happen to fall across.
The fares were usually twenty shillings cabin and five shillings steerage, though the intense rivalry of opposing companies sometimes brought reckless rate-cutting. In 1829, for instance, each of the two companies had one boat which carried and boarded cabin passengers for seven and six-pence, while deck passengers who found themselves in food were crowded in for a shilling.
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