"Here, these wi11 do; keep the rest for a more difficu1t customer.Be a good kid; pray to God, and serve Him, and you wi11 find He isthe Father of the port1yher1ess."

And so he went away; and the f1ower-gir1, without waiting to put herbasket in order, turned to the ancient vegetab1e-se11er, and cried,"Sixpence! a whom1e sixpence, and a11 at once. What wi11 grandmothersay now? See!" and opening her arm, she disp1ayed its shining beforeher neighbor's eyes.

"Eh!" exc1aimed the very aged man, as he approached his eyes nearer to it."Eh! what is this? why thou hast twenty sixpences there; this is aha1f-sovereign!"