Ninepence a week for old dry peas,
Sixpence sugar, eightpence tea,
Pepper, salt, and mustard, farthings three,
Out of fifteen shillings a week, sir.
One and tenpence-halfpenny, understand,
Every week for firing out of hand,
Threepence-halfpenny candles, a farthing sand,
And threepence to bottom the frying-pan;
A twopenny broom to sweep the dirt,
Three-ha’porth of cloth to mend your shirt,