Its price was three and sixpence: of late years £40 has been given for itperhaps more.

The humor, if it is meant for humor, is forced; and then the price,sixpence would have been dear for it.

CURE FOR THE TOOTHACHE.Take a piece of sheet zinc, about the size of a sixpence, and a piece of silver, say a shilling; place them together, and hold the defective tooth between them or contiguous to them; in a few minutes the pain will be gone, as if by magic.

He died at the Mint (Anno 1781) where he had long held, what he accounted, a comfortable independence; and with five pounds, fourteen shillings, and a penny, which were found in his escrutoire after his decease, left the world, blessing God that he had enough to bury him, and that he had never been obliged to any man for a sixpence.

But in the state of his finances, even sixpence might reasonably seem too much.

Sixpence a jokeand it was thought pretty high toowas Dan Stuart's settled remuneration in these cases.

[G-2] It is not likely that Johnson called a sixpence 'a serious consideration.'

"Spirit, or no spirit, apology, or ten and sixpence.

Do you remember the story of the beggar who picked up his hat one day and instead of giving him sixpence, Carlyle said, 'Mon, ye may say ye hae picked up the hat of Thomas Carlyle.'

[508] In Sky a price was set 'upon the heads of foxes, which, as the number was diminished, has been gradually raised from three shillings and sixpence to a guinea, a sum so great in this part of the world, that, in a short time, Sky may be as free from foxes as England from wolves.

The fund for these rewards is a tax of sixpence in the pound, imposed by the farmers on themselves, and said to be paid with great willingness.'

I inquired the reason on the journey down, for I know that at one time he was in very poor circumstances; and he replied that he would rather have starved than have asked me for sixpence.

Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situation in his eye for Master Peter, which would bring in, if obtained, full five and sixpence weekly.

unless he can create sixpence or a shilling to put into the box, for a stale [lure], to decoy in the rest of the parish.

" "Virginia knows," Guy answered, "that I should be only too glad to have her without a sixpence.

Sixpence Tommy Tittlemouse The Derby Ram The Hobby-Horse The Mulberry Bush Young Lambs to Sell Boy and the Sparrow Old Woman, Old Woman

A Sieve My Maid Mary A Difficult Rhyme Pretty John Watts Good Advice I Love Sixpence Bye, Baby Bunting Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son Comical Folk Cock-Crow Tommy Snooks The Three Sons

My Little Maid For Want of a Nail Pease Porridge Ring a Ring o' Roses The Crooked Sixpence This Is the Way Ducks and Drakes The Donkey

Shoe the colt Simple Simon met a pieman Sing a song of sixpence Sing, sing, what shall I sing?

SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie!

SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four-and-twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie!

the vanity, very often from the indigestion of the gentlemen who take the trouble to sing to them; and they listen, as they would to a band of street musicians, and give them sixpence for their tune, and go on with their work.

He told me once that he's often lived on sixpence a day to have money for books.

I'd have given something (over and above the ten-and-sixpence) to have had it otherwise; but I 'spose, Jemmy, I 'spose we understand the claims of decency and humanity."

He would never hear about his puppy, that old Patience Smith takes care of for sixpence a week, or his rabbits that we have here, or his hawk that lives at Wigfield, unless Gladys wrote; Mr. Brandon never writes to him.