(1830) the adventures of a halfpenny

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IALFPENNY;m Halfpenny.

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CHILDREN'S BOOK *COLLECTION

;*LIBRARY OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIALOS ANGELES*

5Or,l!oni:i sr Guide to !-!u- A B C IdAclvciUuri'-s of Sir Richard Whit-? ,| ldBook, by Peter )

Puzzlecap, ]> (l . \ ld' ;Thr Children in the Wood, inverse IdThe Xew House that Jack Built IdStories, or Treasures of Truth IdAnecdotes for Good Child j ]dThe Adventures of a Counterfeit, > ,or Birmingham Halfpenny )Pretty Poems^ for young Folks Id

Any of which, and a variety of others,way fee had of the person >yb tgU:


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Here's something new,Dear Child, for you,'Twill please yon in a trice ;A Halfp'ny chuse.Now don't refuse,A penny is the price.

Tho' basely born,Pray do not scorn,A tale not worse than many}For I'm afraid,More say in trade,

A Hulfp'ny's made a


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I was transported from liiruin^hamI with many of my brethren, of fli'iUrciates, oharacfers, and configurations, fol Jew Pedlar, in Dtikes-placo, who paid'or us scarce a fifth part of our nomiiwlalue.

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THE ADVENTURESOF JLHALFPENNY;

COMMONLY CALLED A

Birmingham Halfpenny,OR

COUNTERFEIT;AS RELATED BY ITSELF.

BANBURY:Printed and Sold by J. G.

BRIDGE-STREET.

Price One Penny.


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INTRODUCTION*The adulteration of the copper-coin,

as it is highly pernicious to trade in ge-neral, so it more immediately affects theitinerate brandies of it. Among these}at present, arc to be found the only cir.f ulators of base metal ; and, perhaps,the only dealers who are obliged to takesuch counterfeits, as will find a currencyno where else: yft are not allowed toraise the price of iheir commodities.A Tyburn execution, a duel, a mostterrible fire, or a horrid, barbarous,bloody, erm 1, and inhuman murder, was\vont to bring in vast revenues to thelower tlass of pamphleteers, who getth< ir livelihood by vending these diurnalrecords publicly in the streets: butsince half. pence have been valued at nomore than nine- pence the pound weight,these occasional pieces hardly answer theexpences of printing and paper ; and theservant maid, who used to indulge hertaste for pwiite literature,


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ifty new play-house song?, or a wholeDoetical sheet of the Yorkshire garland,jr Gloucestershire tragedy, for a half,jenny, can now scarcely procure more:han one single slip of I love Sue, orhe Lover's complaint.

It is also observable, that the publicva'ks no longer echo with the shrill cry)f " Toothpicks ! Take you six, yourlonoar, for a half-penny," as it did* hen half-pence were half-pence worth.But the greatest sufferers are undoubt*dly the numerous fraternity of beggars ;for, as things are circumstanced, itwould be almost as profitable to workis to beg, were it not that many of theuncharitable are now induced to dealput their charity in what is of no otheruse to themselves, in the hope of receivingseven. fold in return. Indeed, since theusual donation has been so much lessenedin its value, the beggars have been obrserved to be more vociferous and impor-tunate. One of these orators, who takeshis station at Vuuxhall.Gardens, now en-


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forces his piteous complaint, with


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INTRODUCTION. inime (o tinu' as they come into their handf.The expi.'rinu'ikt is worth making ; andI on the table, erected itself upon. from the royal lipi stamped

. .uticulaiely uttered thoi.u \vii:jj iittrratiou,


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Adventures of a Halfpenny*

SIR," T SHALL not pretend to concealjJL from you the illegitimacy olmy birth, or the bareness of ray ex-

traction : and though I seem to beaithe marks of old as:e, I received mybeing at Birmingham not six monthsago. From thence I was transported,

jwith manyofmy bretliren, oi' differentdates, characters, and configurations,to a Jew-pedlar* in Dukes-plnce, %vhayG. RUSH ER,BANBURY.

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PRusher's lit-naiiis uiadi-inosr 1 ,i-v tciRusher's Royal IV-is.-r finprQved 3dHistory of i? ( lisa. Orsair.es. and)

Julia, with F,. f 6d

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with manyi Table*

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Jlis t;!A Halfp'uo

(1830) the adventures of a halfpenny

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