By buying in June I can a good overcoat at half price.

Summer stuffs at a discountnice lot o' white ducks at half price.

"The driver's a friend of mine," explained the Major, "and he moved us for fifty cents, which is less than half price.

" "Is it all right for us to underwrite the stock ourselves at half price?" inquired Mr. Beck.

The latter gave the reins to a black, one who was no longer a slave, but who was a descendant of some of the ancient slaves of the Pratts, and in that character consented still to dawdle about the place, working for half price.

Them trowsers must have cost two dollars, but they ar'n't worth half price now.

Discount N. discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio^, percentage; rebate, rebatement^; backwardation, contango^; salvage; tare and tret^. sale, bargain; half price; price war.

I was so young and childish, and so little qualified to undertake the whole charge of my existence, that often of a morning I could not resist the stale pastry put out for sale at half price at the pastry-cooks' doors, and spent on that the money I should have kept for my dinner.

He was asked by a certain Mr. Joseph Delaplaine, of Philadelphia, to paint a portrait of ex-President John Adams for half price, the portrait to be engraved and included in "Delaplaine's Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished American Characters," and, from letters of a later date, I believe that Morse consented to this.

The women are working in the Departments, as everywhere else, for half price, and the only pretext, you tell us, for keeping women there is because the Government can economize by employing women for less money.

Oh, no, no! Then run to Jarley's" besides other compositions in prose, all having the same moralnamely, that the reader must make haste to Jarley's, and that children and servants were admitted at half price, Mrs. Jarley then rolled these testimonials up, and having put them carefully away, sat down and looked at the child in triumph.

Confident that his luck had changed, he proceeded to demolish three out of the four books assigned to him in the most scathing reviews, whereupon the editor paid him half price and dismissed him.

Let the goods lie in your closet, for, between ourselves, goods were very cheap in Moscow this year, and I cleverly threw out my line and bought everything at half price.

I brought him home with me; had brandy, bread, and ham set out; and, after a little talk back and forth, I bought 400 chests at half price.

I can borrow no more on my note, and I cannot sell my goods at half price.

One theatre is giving all the money taken in at the door to the Red Cross; all of them admit men in uniform free, or at half price, and a long list of actors have gone to the front.

"Judas Iscariot could have sublet his job to you at half price if you'd been in the neighborhood.

Those of my audience who wished to stay were offered seats at half price; those who did not, slipped out, and the crowd rushed in, soon packing the house to its utmost capacity.

On the fences, every few rods, were plastered posters announcing the "Panorama of Africa" for that evening, at "Washington Hall""Tickets, twenty-five cents""Children under twelve years of age, half price," &c., &c.

This circumstance did not seem to prevent the population from reading them; for the party observed at least two boys (half prices) in the act of spelling them out between their legs.

You can put us on a front seat, I suppose?" "First come, first served," said Tiffles, amiably, for he had reckoned up, and found that this party brought him a dollar and a quarter, counting the children as half prices, and the baby free.

They were admitted at half price (as per advertisement), and brought five dollars and sixty-two cents into the treasury.

HALF PRICE TRIAL COUPON [Illustration: cover of "Little Folks" magazine.]

Presently I espied a sign, "Funerals, for this week only, at half price."