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That I must I must be let go over to that Staten Island on that boat, whether or no. Me an' a dog won't take up much room, an', if he won't let me, I'll wait round till I get some sort o' job an' earn the money to pay. You needn't think, Nick Parson, that a teeny thing like a few centses will keep me from grandpa.
His lips twitched and his eyes winked, but the look in his face was the look of a soldier-man. No intervention from the Doctor could shake his determination. With coaxing insinuation the Doctor said, "We haven't seen all the things, you know." Hope kindled in David's eyes. "Maybe," he said with enthusiasm, "maybe this costs more than three five centses. Does it?"
"When it's your birthday," said the Doctor, "it's all right to spend three five centses." Here, then, was David's chance. The jumping-jack was almost his, when his shoes squeaked a warning. Thus suddenly was he reminded that he was a brave little soldier-man. He now saw that such a purchase would be ridiculous.
All the same, a strange wistfulness came into David's eyes when he put aside poor jumping-jack. Such a dear of a jumping-jack he was! You could have kissed the jolly red paint of him, and the pretty toy bank was a thing to hug tight under your arm. That is why the little boy's voice was such a weak and far-away voice when he presently asked: "Would two five centses get him, do you think?"
An' I told her, I said: 'Jane, if you don't look out you'll never wear this coat all next winter nohow. An' she up an' laughed, just like she didn't mind a thing like that. An' she paid me ten whole centses, she did. But I love her. Jane's so good to everybody, to every single body. Ain't she, grandpa?" "Aye, aye, deary. I cal'late she done it a purpose. She makes her money easy, Jane does.
"Well," said Polly, "we've got to get all the thirty centses we can, mammy dear; and I know I can do it, truly try me once," she implored. "Well." Mrs. Pepper relented, slowly. "Don't feel bad, mammy dear," comforted Polly, sewing away briskly; "Ben'll get well pretty soon, and then we'll be all right." "Maybe," said Mrs.
Sure, 'twas Nick, the parson, hisself, what seen them fifty-five centses was in the right hands, an' not scattered by that power o' young ones as was hangin' round when the lady give 'em." "Did he take them? Oh, I'm so glad an' it's queer he should ha' forgot to tell me last night. Never mind, though. I ain't goin' to peddle to-day. I shan't peddle no more till I find grandpa. I couldn't.
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