The heir of Col, an island not far distant, has lately told me how wealthy he should be if he could let Rum, another of his islands, for twopence halfpenny an acre; and Macleod has an estate which the surveyor reports to contain 80,000 acres, rented at £600 a year.'

Twopence-farthing per gross of boxes, and buy your own string and paste, is not wealth, but when the work went more rapid starvation came.

Well, when we coom to Gorton we geet twopence-hawpenny theer; an' that wur o'.

Well, at after that twopence-hawpenny, we geet twopence moor, an' that's o' at we'n getten.