thruppence

Families were charged sixpence a week for adults and thruppence for children.

He's returning to the scene of childhood holidays, where he probably paid a tinker's son thruppence to carry his rod and act as a footstool during those idyllic days fishing off the harbour wall.

And I wouldn't have had a mother; she almost certainly would have died giving birth to me, because the person delivering me was actually a chimney sweep, and just did a bit of midwifery on the side, for an extra thruppence a month.

"Not till 'ee pays me thruppence for that there milk."

I gev ye seventeen and thruppence.