THE LIFE OF A THREEPENNY PIECE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2065, 17 August 1875, Page 2

THE LIFE OF A THREEPENNY PIECE.

I was born on the Ist of April, 1871, and issued from the Mint, with a goodly number of brethren; bearing the ioMge/of our noble Queen on one side and the figure three on the other. I wan.sent with them to a bank, and handed over with other coins in exchange for a piece of paper. I next found myself in a sound box under* neath the bar counter of a public house. I had barely been there five minutes when ■ a voice said,." Are you going to MkQtyt?" and after.a jiugling of glasses, I i** rudely pulled out, and thrown on" a tres? zinc plate, and crammed into the pqafctft of a greasy butcher, "During an hour~L^ passed to and fro between this pocket and the round box many timed, until I was carried away in another .pocket, ;in com* pany with other image*,of our Queen, .a pocket knife,,and a_ bit of cobbler's wax. Four days '% was handled about.jo.like manner, until my master then spoke to a blackfellow in these words A':You cut'era up waddy?" He replied, (iUi; what give it ?'! My master pulliqg me out, said, "This fellow," "Baal;" said the blackfellow, him no '■' nobbier," on which I went to, nay dark abode. . The next time I saw the light was one morning, when I heard the sound of bells, and my master pat me .on a tabja :in a drawing-room, where was a beautffol -creature dressed in silk, and with a delicate hand on which was a glove labelled "Jouvin—6£." The lady picked me up and put me between the glove and tho palm of her hand, ani I went 7 with her-to church, I felt so comfortable on my soft bed, where I remained one hour —during which my mistress, kept kneeling down and standing up—and I heard beautiful music, and sweet singing, and- some-, good w.or/ta giving to the poor- ; atfcT Tending '.'•» the Lord, and- ijTieerful givers, which I did not. understand. - At last I saw a' man come around'with'a little round dish to my mistress's seat, and with her delineate right hand, she.to.ok me from my soft bed and dropped me in the dish. I was carried away and put into a larger dish, where W"my surprise, I met sixty.five of my to^'tliren who came with tae first to the Batik. I asked of my feUows why the bll^filellow refussed me, I was offered . as a;-lpair'to the Lord; I then found out the reason why I was despised as being less than a nobbier—l was Cokgbegaiion MoiTET.