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  • I suppose you know we have no paper in Pretoria; the best they can do for us is to let us buy for a tikkie the _Bloemfontein Post_, always four days old, and its contents!

    A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

  • But if he could see his Mary's boy to-day, he'd put up with any amount of felt-basin hats and Roman collars, and incense and altar-genuflections wouldn't count for a tikkie.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • The milk for which he asked for himself and the child, which was procured from the native cattle-kraals for a tikkie a pint, and for which Bough charged at the price of champagne, kept him alive.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • The original owner had charged an extra tikkie for doing it, and it burned the arm that bore it like a vaccination-pustule on the fifth day.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • If walkee back no paper, too muchee John catchee hellee, reaping only reproaches and no tikkie at all.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • John Tow sabee'd only that a fair foreign devil gave the one missive, with a tikkie for delivery, and 'spose one time Tow makee plenty good walkee back with anulla paper some pidgin bime-bye catchee more tikkie.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • He had paid every tikkie of the money faithfully to Brounckers, and his hands were metaphorically clean, and his neck comfortably safe.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • Bough got nothing for all his kindness -- not a tikkie.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • With a strong, imperious shove, he dumped the blue bundle down among the cowslips in which the feet of the guilty fair were hidden, saying sternly: "I give you three minutes to git it off your chest, else kickie is wot you'll catch instead o 'tikkie."

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • Plenty tikkie want to buy chow, allee so baddee times. "

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

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