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Updated: June 4, 2025
It is hardly necessary to say that little progress was ever made in the excavations, or, for that matter, intended to be made. Yet the majority of these workmen were able-bodied fellows, who received tenpence a day for doing nothing. Much less injury would have been inflicted on their self-respect by giving them the money outright than in return for this mockery of labour.
I have thus given a few out of the hundreds of donations, varying from one farthing to two thousand pounds, as specimens, to show how the Lord was pleased to furnish me with the means. The total amount which came in for the building fund was fifteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-four pounds eighteen shillings tenpence.
We thought that pretty good, but Thursday's consignment was simply astonishing, 1,100 boxes coming in. We sent them all to England. Mackerel have fetched grand prices this year. Early in the season we sold them to Birmingham at tenpence apiece wholesale, with carriage and other expenses on the top of that. Better price than the pollock? Well, that fish is not very good just now.
Each of us when he has dined rolls up a cigarette, and lounges perhaps round the Palais Royal for half an hour. As for our lodging the poorest of us live by tens in one room, and sleep by fours and fives upon one mattress; paying from twopence to tenpence a night.
This was the only thing that was new, and it cost tenpence halfpenny. All the rest of the things together cost twenty-six shillings and sevenpence halfpenny, and I think they were cheap. But they seemed very poor and very little of them when they were dumped down in the front room. The bed especially looked far from its best a mere heap of loose iron.
"The costs of that loaf is, I believe, to be exact, one and tenpence ha'penny one and tenpence ha'penny to poor people whose staple food it is. When you sign an authority to sell wheat in sufficient bulk to bring the cost down to sixpence, you can have the loaf and go as soon as the sale is finished.
Applied in the first instance jocosely, the title grew inseparable from her, and was the one she herself always used. Her employment was the making of shirts for export; she earned on an average tenpence a day, and frequently worked fifteen hours between leaving and returning to her home.
"'The bargain was for one pound, ses the skipper, 'ardly able to speak. "'Well, you tell that to the policeman, ses Artful 'Arry. "It was no use, he'd got us every way; and at last the skipper turns out 'is pockets, and he ses, 'Look 'ere, he ses, 'I've got seventeen and tenpence ha' penny. Will you go if I give you that? "''Ow much has the watchman got? ses 'Arry.
"Well, I'm glad I can tell you that question," said Slick, "for I don't calculate to return to these parts; butter is risin' a cent or two; I put mine off mind at tenpence." "Don't return! possible? why, how you talk. Have you done with the clock trade?" "I guess I have, it ain't worth follerin' now."
What an an inebriating effect, if I may use the word without offence to the late lamented poet, would be added to the cup that cheers by the thought that the same handle, the same spout, the same er er furry deposit in the inside, have ministered to the refreshment of one of the master spirits of our day! Going at eightpence eightpence-halfpenny I thank you, madam! At tenpence!
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