Here's threepence; that's all the tin I'm worth.what have you got, Diggy?" "Four halfpenny stamps, and half a frank on my watch-chain," was the reply.

Instead of doing her hair as usual in one severe penny bun at the back, she had constructed a halfpenny bun, so to speak, over each ear.

DUCKS AND DRAKES A duck and a drake, And a halfpenny cake, With a penny to pay the old baker.

She was very superstitious about luck, "invoking" the big prizes, clapping her hands in ecstasy whenever Edgar won a halfpenny egg-cup, falling into the depths of despair at every bad shot.

All his actions and words are set down in so exact a method that an indifferent accountant may cast him up to a halfpenny-farthing.

The platoon Sergeant, who is suffering from trench feet and is a constant reader of a certain pessimistic halfpenny journal, replies gloomily: "We'll have had heavy losses oorselves, too, I doot!"

"One cannot do a thing that it is not put the wrong way up in the halfpenny papers.

"That's young Annesley, the son of a twopenny-halfpenny parson down in Hertfordshire.

The smallest clerkships, twopenny-halfpenny postmasterships in unheard-of villagesall, all that can be dispensed with, must make way for the friends of the incomers to power.

Fortunately, there were several printing-presses in this settlement; and after a while, through the kindness of a stranger,who took an interest in him and pitied his forlorn condition, wandering up and down Market Street, poorly dressed, and with a halfpenny roll in his hand, or who was attracted by his bright and honest face, frank manners, and expressive utterances,Franklin got work, with small wages.

but of one way of making what I send you useful, which is, by sending you a blank sheet: sure you would not grudge threepence for a halfpenny sheet, when you give as much for one not worth a farthing.

Jenkins slept forgiven beneath his twopenny-halfpenny tombstone, and Thompson, reflecting that not only was his own monument designed (with a canopy of Carrara marble), but the cost of it invested in the three per cents., walked contentedly back to the station, repeating on his way with gentle scorn "A Father kind, a Husband dear, A faithful Friend, lies buried here.

" As a step towards bringing about some such union of those ready to work for man, Mr. Stead and I projected the Link, a halfpenny weekly, the spirit of which was described in its motto, taken from Victor Hugo: "The people are silence.

Why, when I was a boy, a good honest labouring man wanted to see nothing better than a halfpenny ballad, with a wood-cut at the top, and they worked very well then, and wanted for nothing.' 'Oh, we shall give them the halfpenny ballads in time!' said Vieuxbois, smiling.

During the late panic, a coalheaver went into a tobacconist's shop to purchase a halfpenny worth of pig-tail, when a gentleman asked him if he was in any alarm about the cholera?