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Her father was employed on the public works, and earned ninepence a day, which was barely enough to purchase food for himself, to enable him to continue at work. This child had had no food for four days before her death, except a small morsel of bread and seaweed. She died on the evening of Christmas day. The case of Richard Finn was another of the five.
Once past the Rame we should be right as ninepence and might run down the coast on a soldier's wind: it would stiffen a bit out yonder unless he was mistaken. He pulled out his pipe and lit it. Aft loomed the bulk of Mrs. Pengelly at the wheel. Save for a call now and again to warn us that the helm was down, to put about, she steered in silence. And she steered admirably.
So the Public took the shares ten at ninepence, and immediately when that was spent twelve Preference at one and sixpence and they were all signed by Jemmy and countersigned by the Major, and between ourselves much better worth the money than some shares I have paid for in my time.
He found a merchant sooner than he expected; for Archibald, much applauding his own prudence, purchased the whole lot for two shillings and ninepence; and the pedlar, delighted with the profit of such a wholesale transaction, instantly returned to Carlisle to supply himself with more. The considerate Mr.
Ninepence ha'penny per bushel, delivered at the railway station! Oh, my country! and fivepence per bushel out of that to a carrier to take it there! Dad sold because he could n't afford to await a better market; and when the letter came containing a cheque in payment, he made a calculation, then looked pitifully at Mother, and muttered "SEVEN POUN'S TEN!" Kate's Wedding.
"Probably out of regard for the interest of his client," said Spalding, gravely; "but proceed with the case." "'Fisherman, said I," resumed the Doctor, "'what is the cost of these five lawyers? How much for the fee simple of the lot? "'They ain't worth but ninepence, he replied. "'Good, said I, 'here's a shilling, York currency. "'Agreed, said he, and threw in a sucker, by way of change.
Jellison put on her spectacles apparently that she might hear the better, pushed away her dinner in spite of her visitors' civilities, and listened with a bright and beady eye. "An' yer agoin' to pay me one a sixpence a score, where I now gets ninepence. And I'll not have to tramp it into town no more you'll send a man round. And who is agoin' to pay me, miss, if you'll excuse me asking?"
"Fined fourpence for threat of physical violence and ninepence for executing the same," Roger murmured. "I'll enter it presently." "Somebody should slay Roger," Gilbert said. "Somebody should take hold of his neat little neck and wring it!..." They finished their meal and sat back in their chairs, smoking and chattering. "What's all this about the human note, Gilbert?"
Where I find, for example, that the total assessment on the nett rateable value does not exceed ninepence or tenpence in the pound, I really think such districts ought to be called upon to increase their rates before applying for extraneous help.
"When you undertake the transcription of an author's scrawl at ninepence the thousand words you have to work hard, especially when, as it is in this case, the thing's practically unreadable. Besides, the woman in it makes me lose my temper. If I'd had a man of the kind described to deal with I'd have thrashed him."
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