In the old days, people had made their own halfpennies and farthings by the simple process of cutting pennies into halves and quarters.
The nation, I fancy, was so relieved to get back to cakes and ale that it was not inclined to be censorious about the new halfpennies and farthings.
It was not till 1817 that English gold and silver became current in Ireland, and Irish pennies and halfpennies were struck as late as the reign of George IV.
Mark off on a sheet of paper a rectangular space 5 inches by 3 inches, and then find the greatest number of halfpennies that can be placed within the enclosure under the following conditions.
A loose heap of halfpennies should also be provided to hand round the room, with a die and a box, in order that the illusion of the actual halfpennies being used in the performance of the trick may be kept up.
It is scarcely necessary to observe that a reversal of this part of the trick will, of course, bring back the die, and make the halfpennies disappear.
Pass" is to be given; the real halfpennies are to be produced from underneath the table, and thrown thereupon.
Either counters or halfpennies may serve for stakes, an equal number of which must be allotted to all, the pool being provided by contributions from each player.
The materials required are a block made to represent a pile of ordinaryhalfpennies (see Fig.
At the same time let the box be lifted by slightly pinching it near the bottom with the finger and thumb of the right hand, by which motion the block of imitation halfpennies will also be lifted.
We'll keep our halfpennies for two Saturdays--that'll do.
I know where to get them," and quite happy, Peggy trotted off to take out her money-box and look to be quite sure that the three pennies and three halfpennies were there in safety, where for some weeks they had been waiting.
Hold it up, and say: "There are twohalfpennies on the table, and I have two in this hand.
Picking up the two halfpennies with your right hand, tell the company that you intend to pass one of them into the other hand.
Then with the right hand sweep the threehalfpennies back into the left hand, at the same time letting the "palmed" coin fall with them.
Then lay both hands flat on the table, lift your left hand, and show three halfpenniesunder it.
With them she broke the windows of empty houses; climbed ladders and explored roofs and manipulated halfpennies stuck with wax to the paving-stones.
The play was over; the halfpennies had been gathered in.
In 1582 the three-farthing pieces were withdrawn and silverhalfpennies issued.
Penny same as Half-groat; other pennies and halfpennies without legend.
My heart had been aching to obtain that book, but the price was ninepence, and I knew that if I saved up those very scarce halfpennies it would be years before I got ninepence, and so I thought I should never get the book.
I had never possessed a coin of the realm above the value of a halfpenny, and such halfpennies were, like angels' visits, few and far between, for the wages which I earned had to go for my maintainance.
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