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"Wasn't nobody's, only mummy's. You said they were for her. Charlotte wasn't naughty." "Did you find it on the floor?" "No." "Where then?" "Dey was all in nice itty rows on the table. I only taken one pitty goldy penny. Mummy gives me goldy pennies always." "Sovereigns for playthings, Renata. That's very immoral." "No, only new halfpennies. Charlotte didn't know any better, Aymer."
"Yes," said I, and out she ran, followed by the whole kingdom. We white folk stood inside to watch the fun. Priscilla threw out a handful of pennies, and the darkeys just piled themselves up in the road on top of the money. You could see nothing but madly waving legs. The mass heaved and tossed and moved from one side of the road to the other.
Many shops stood in the street, and Dorothy saw that everything in them was green. Green candy and green pop corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats, and green clothes of all sorts. At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies.
Old women crouched in decrepit doorways, fumbling their aprons; skipping ropes whirled in the roadway. A little higher up a vendor of cheap ices had set up his store and was rapidly absorbing all the pennies of the neighborhood. Esther and Sarah turned into a dilapidated court, where a hag argued the price of trotters with a family leaning one over the other out of a second-floor window.
"You've a great mind, Charlie," said Allie approvingly. "Everybody here counts by bits; two make a quarter; and then, you know, we don't have any pennies here, nothing smaller than a five-cent piece. Remember that, and don't offer anybody a penny, even if it's a beggar. Go on; what next?" "That's about all, for this time," he answered. "Oh, no; there's one thing more.
As we traversed Ypres on our homeward route, a little girl held up bouquets of spring flowers and we stopped while I bought a large bunch of daffodils for the equivalent of two pennies. Crossing the railway tracks by the shell-shattered station we struck into the Dickiebush Bailleul Road, and drove slowly homeward over the rough pavé.
"I'd give them to you gladly," answered the other, poking fun at him, "but just now I can't give them to you." "For the price of four pennies, I'll sell you my coat." "If it rains, what shall I do with a coat of flowered paper? I could not take it off again." "Do you want to buy my shoes?" "They are only good enough to light a fire with." "What about my hat?" "Fine bargain, indeed! A cap of dough!
'No, dear, was the answer in the dark; 'but you know my old pensioners, the blind fifer and his wife; I've been thinking of them. 'They were paid as they passed down the street yesterday, my love. 'Yes, dear, I hope so. But he flourishes his tune so absurdly. I've been thinking, that is the part I have played, instead of doing the female's duty of handing round the tin-cup for pennies.
This done, the bank's new customer took himself off, with thanks and apologies; carrying with him, however, two blank cheque forms from Mr. Trenaman's book, the pennies for which he punctiliously paid over the counter. Having no cheque forms with him, he explained, he might find them useful if he could come across some friend who could provide the cash he wished to use that night.
"Perhaps he is," Lucia laughed, "but he is my soldier of the pennies, just the same, that's the name I love him by." "But I don't understand," Maria protested, "did you know him before?" "Yes and no," Lucia teased. "I did not know his name, or what he looked like, but I knew there was a soldier of the pennies somewhere." "But tell me," Maria begged. "I am so curious." Lucia laughed.
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