three-and-three-halfpence

Updated: May 22, 2025

And there they were on the top of a church-tower in the dusky twilight, with blue stars coming out by ones and twos and tens and twenties over their heads miles away from home, with three-and-three-halfpence in their pockets, and a doubtful act about the necessities of life to be accounted for if anyone found them with the soda-water syphon. They looked at each other.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - Five Children and It