He proclaimed loudly that we had received a penny more than our due, and went his way.
Granting, for the sake of the argument, that we were what we represented ourselves to be--namely, poor men and broke--then here was out position: night was coming on; we had had no supper, much less dinner; and we possessed sixpence between us.

I was hungry enough to eat three sixpenn'orths of food, and so was Bert.

One thing was patent.

By doing 16.3 per cent.

justice to our stomachs, we would expend the sixpence, and our stomachs would still be gnawing under 83.3 per cent.injustice.