"Half a Crown, " published in September 2008 . " Ha'penny " won the 2008 Prometheus Award ( jointly with Harry Turtledove's novel " The Gladiator " ) and has been nominated for the Lambda Literary Award.
32.
During this dinner Peter Morrison reveals a story he has just been told by old schoolmate Ivan Blessington who heard it from Lloyd-James himself recently : after the infamous party in 1945 the mean Lloyd-James had left half a crown instead of the ordinary five shillings for cleaning up.
33.
When challenged, he later amended this to a claim that Williams could only read a text when he could compare it to another one, describing this as " mechanical labour which is paid for at the public libraries at Paris and Berlin at the rate of half a crown a year ."
34.
This describes the train as " . . . consisting of the usual open passenger truck and a closed or first class carriage drawn by two horses . " The differences must have been real, as the return fares from Carnarvon Castle to Nantlle in 1857 were one shilling 3rd Class, one shilling and Half a Crown 1st Class.
35.
The High Master ( headmaster ) was paid ?0 per year and initially only boys from St Saviour's parish could be admitted for a fee of half a crown ( 2s . 6d ), while those from St Olave's and other parishes could pay a fee to the High Master to arrange a schoolmaster for their instruction.
36.
Some things seem very cheap, as when the royal arms were painted and erected for two pounds three shillings and eight pence, and some very expensive, as when the book containing the new Communion Service of 1662, was purchased at a cost of twelve shillings, at a time when a labourer's weekly wage would not be much above half a crown.
37.
The score of 26 at darts ( one dart in each of the top three spaces ) was sometimes called " half-a-crown " as late as the 1990s, though this did start to confuse the younger players . 26 is also referred to as " Breakfast ", since 2 / 6 or half a crown was the standard cost for breakfast pre-decimalisation.
38.
The news he was writing about the war was all over London; he chose " The Times " for the serial rights rather than the magazine " Metropolitan ", and with advances from his English and American publishers, he told a guest in 1921 that it was exhilarating to write for half a crown a word ( a pound for eight words ).
39.
Her advertisement in a London newspaper declared I, Elizabeth Wilkinson, of Clerkenwell, having had some words with Hannah Hyfield, and requiring Satisfaction, do invite her to meet me on the Stage and Box me . They went on to specify that each woman would grasp half a crown in each hand, a rule that prevented the gouging and scratching common in eighteenth century boxing.
40.
When the day came to leave, each child was given a complete outfit, a tin trunk, two changes of clothing, an umbrella, a Bible, a copy of George M�ller's " Narratives " ( after his death, a copy of his autobiography was given instead ), and some money-half a crown for the boys, and the accumulated savings for the girls.
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