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Sixpence's main claim to fame was that, as a very young lad living in Cameroon, he had been employed by the celebrated Mary Kingsley as a houseboy.
Another name for the sixpence was sprat, which probably came from a cross between this word and sprazianna, the Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence ( tanner ).
The name tanner for a sixpence coin was first used at the beginning of the 19th century.
Sixpence's eyesight was failing badly when we first met, and he was disaster-prone.
This was the day on which Sixpence's innocence had come to an end, and Miss Kingsley's sulfurous expertise with the English language had remained indelibly etched in his memory all his life.