"Why," said the emigrant, "did you not agree to board me for sixpence a meal and threepence for a bed?"

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

At all events, the interpretation of "P" was clearly set forth by another document, which explained that I was entitled to a pension of eight shillings and threepence per week so long as I remained among the happy W.P.'s.

In 1748, when he was sixteen years old, he won two shillings and threepence from his sister-in-law at whist and five shillings at "Loo" (or, as he sometimes spells it, "Lue") from his brother, and he seems always to have played for small stakes, which sometimes mounted into fairly sizable sums.

In his seventeenth year he won one shilling and threepence by the cue, and from that time won and lost more or less money in this way.

The lowest coin is worth about threepence of English money.

One facetious class-mate, standing close to the sink, offered to sell him by auction; and hammering on the stones with the fragment of a bat handle, knocked him down for threepence to another joker, who said he'd do for a pen-wiper.