Sixpence a year wasn't enough to live on-- even in those days, long ago; and if the Doctor hadn't had some money saved up in his money- box, no one knows what would have happened.
He held the
sixpence in the palm of his hand, and looking at it thoughtfully, spoke to us in English.
'One and sixpence!' repeated his son contemptuously.
'Yes, sir,' returned John, 'one and sixpence. When I was your age, I had never seen so much money, in a heap.
They stood in rows on the branches, waiting politely while he cut the paper
sixpences out of his bank-note, and presently he called the roll, and then each bird, as the names were mentioned, flew down and got
sixpence.
They got capital seats for
sixpence each, high up but not in the gallery, and the night was so fine that there was plenty of room.
He had no
sixpence, neither had the old lady, nor Mr Abel, nor the Notary, nor Mr Chuckster.
He found a crooked
sixpence under the hearth-rug; and upon Christmas Eve he and Hunca Munca stuffed it into one of the stockings of Lucinda and Jane.
Price four shillings and
sixpence, bound in blue, with a picture into the bargain.
To supply the demand, the General Court passed a law for establishing a coinage of shillings, sixpences, and threepences.
All this old and new silver being melted down and coined, the result was an immense amount of splendid shillings, sixpences, and threepences.
The buttons of his waistcoat were sixpences; and the knees of his small-clothes were buttoned with silver threepences.