In addition to this, each man received one shilling; to which a certain active member of the committee added threepence in each case.

The newspaper stamp in those days was threepence-halfpenny, raised in 1815 to fourpence.

The families who live in the neighborhood of Minden, mostly on small parcels of land, have until now got on with a tolerable degree of comfort, by cultivating their land in summer and spinning yarn in winter; but now the depression is so great that if they could be put into the way of earning threepence a day, they would embrace it with thankfulness.

Who gave the ultimate threepence we cannot tell, neither are we told in what way it was expended.

I tried to coax, then bounce him, But my tin I had to squander, For he put threepence a head On the mob of the overlander.

In those days the postage of a letter was twopence for short distances, and threepence for any distance beyond eighty miles.

He started another club at the Essex Head, whose members were to meet twice a week, with the modest fine of threepence for non-attendance.

Or think what such an addition means to those working-women from the North, who at the same time protested in Trafalgar Square against the compulsory insurance because the payment of threepence a week would lose them two of their dinnerstwice the penn'orth of bread and ha'porth of cheese that they always enjoyed for dinner!

Par exemple: I touch snail x, once, twice, three times, with the weak solution, No. 1; John Meavy, receiving this fact, through the sympathetic report of snail a, the chemical paper, and the microscope, reads, as plainly as if it had been printed in pica type: 'Flour declined threepence.'

Mamma gives us threepence a week, to spend as we please, you know; but I will only take twopence for the time to come, and I shall ask her to give the other pennies to the Tract Society at the end of the year.

For threepence I refreshed myself completely, and limped seven miles further.

I answered, it was very true: and I wondered how I could forbear when I saw his dishes of the size of a silver threepence, a leg of pork hardly a mouthful, a cup not so big as a nutshell; and so I went on, describing the rest of his household stuff and provisions, after the same manner.

At the end of a year and a half, disgusted alike with the duties of the office, and with his want of success in their discharge, Johnson left for London, with David Garrick for his companion, and reached it with one letter of introduction from Gilbert Walmsley, three acts of the tragedy of "Irene," and (according to his fellow-traveller) threepence-halfpenny in his pocket!

[Price Threepence.

[Price Threepence.

It was the only collar he had in the world, it saved threepence a week at least, and that, to a South Kensington "science teacher in training," living on the guinea a week allowed by a parental but parsimonious government, is a sum to consider.

[Price Threepence.

A dirty account-book, such as may be purchased for threepence, is handed up to him; the binding is broken, and some of the leaves are loose.

[Price Threepence.

"This tea," he says, "would be four-and-sixpence a pound to any one else, but to you it is only four-and-threepence."

Speaking of THACKERAY, Messrs. CASSELL & Co. have just brought out a one-and-threepenny edition ("the threepence be demmed!") of the Yellowplush Papers, with a dainty canary-coloured Jeames on the cover.

This way for the Mystic Gallerythree Illusions for threepence!

Only threepence!

It's wonderful how they can do it all for threepence, isn't it?

Are you, perhaps, the father of the new Decree that makes a threepence worth but two? ISAAC.