c. 1930, Marriott Edgar, Three Ha'pence A FootNow Maple were Sam's Monopoly;That means it were all 'is to cut,And nobody else 'adn't got none;So 'e asked Noah three ha'pence a foot.
1975 R. F. Delderfield. Give Us This DayThat's why chaps like me, who take their work seriously, get more kicks than ha'pence. Ninety per cent of the men who outrank me got where they did by a word in the right ear at the right time...Give Us This Day, published by Hodder & Stoughton,
2010 July 22, George Monbiot, The Guardian, George Monbiot's Blog,How scrapping the SDC to save money will cost the taxpayer a fortuneJunking it is the definitive false economy: spoiling the ship for a ha' pence of tar.
