"Nice work-box for a little girl, half-a-crown." "Half a fiddlestick," said Jack promptly.

"What have you got for a halfpenny ?" "Them's halfpenny balls, whips, and dolls.

Them churns and mugs is a halfpenny; and so's the little tin plates.

Them's the halfpenny monkeys on sticks." "Now, Madame," said Jack, "put that half-crown back, and give me a shilling.

Twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four.