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Updated: May 28, 2025
Come, give us ninepence, and I'll go straight off." "Here is a shilling," said Miss Wilson. "Now go." "Threppence change!" cried Smilash. "Honesty has ever been " "You may keep the change." "You have a noble 'art, lady; but you're flying in the face of the law of supply and demand.
"I bargained for ninepence, and what with the roller, and opening the soda water, and shoving them heavy tables about, there was a decomposition of tissue in me to the tune of two shillings. But all I ask is the ninepence, and let the lady keep the one and threppence as the reward of abstinence. Exploitation of labor at the rate of a hundred and twenty-five per cent., that is.
I made two dollars an' five an' threppence out'n the Scott party last week; an' I hear tell uv some new folks on Franklin Street gwine give a big party, an' I'm spectin' somethin' out uv dat. Lawdy, Lawdy, Mahs William," she added, after a pause given to reflection, "hit certainly does 'muse me to see how some 'r dese people done come up. But they kain' fool me.
There was a man in the gallery, which is otherwise back seats at threppence, got up an' said he'd a-come on that contrack, an' no other. Mortimer made 'im a speech, and when that wouldn' do I copped 'im on the back o' the neck." "An' after that, I s'pose, there was a free fight?" "No," said Sam; "you 'd be surprised how quiet 'e took it. 'E was unconscious." She eyed him thoughtfully.
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