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  • "Threepence," said Smith, but was instantly jostled by a violent nudge from Gosse.

    Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • There was an image: The midget Jimmy Threepence babysitting an infant girl who was nearly half as tall as him straight out of the womb.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • There was an image: The midget Jimmy Threepence babysitting an infant girl who was nearly half as tall as him straight out of the womb.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • He threw his arms up into the air and hopped back over to his card game, past Jimmy Threepence, back into the smoky, never-ending night.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • Jimmy Threepence—that crazy-damned-drunken-midget—was there in the middle of it all, too, bellowing out his old English drinking songs.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • He thumped his chest like an orangutan and screamed out above the jukebox and Jimmy Threepence singing there in the middle of the barroom like he was on a stage.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • He threw his arms up into the air and hopped back over to his card game, past Jimmy Threepence, back into the smoky, never-ending night.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • Jimmy Threepence absolutely loved that song and he sang it out loudly whenever the spirits moved him to sing.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • Jimmy Threepence came waddling into the bar whistling an old English drinking song, smoking a cigarette.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

  • Jimmy Threepence tended to break into old English drinking ballads late at night at the Badlands Saloon and he sounded great to my ears, if a little bit forced.

    The Dadlands Saloon Jonathan Twingley 2009

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