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"Oh, Tommy," cried Elspeth, worshipping him, "I couldn't have doned that, I couldn't!" She was barely six, and easily taken in, but she would save him from himself if she could. What to do with her ladyship's threepence? Tommy finally decided to drop it into the charity-box that had once contained his penny.
She wondered whether they had enough to eat now; if they were to be brought up on nothing, they probably had not, she thought, and she felt anxious to finish her task that she might run and ask mother about it, and how she could best help with the money out of the charity-box.
A small counter divided the shop, leaving a space for the public near the entrance and reserving the rest of the place for the owners and a large iron safe. Near the door a wooden charity-box, inscribed in Hebrew, awaited the donations of the faithful for the philanthropic activities of the community.
After perusing these numerous testimonials to the truly wonderful virtues of an aristocracy whom we are permitted to survive, and after dropping some shillings in the charity-box, which rather startle us by the noise they make, we pass out of the cool abbey into the hot churchyard, and read on a lonely stone which stands in a corner by the gate that here lies the dust of Mary Ann Brown, "for thirty-five years faithful servant to Mr.
Mrs Hawthorne knew what an effort this resolve had cost her little daughter. "Well, dear Penny," she answered, "if you do that I think you will be giving her a more valuable gift than the charity-box full of money." "Why?" said Penny. "Because you will give her what costs you most.
Each one of the poor people who entered to pray went up, as I noticed, to the charity-box and dropped in a mite, in the hope, no doubt, that this good action might buy fair fortune for a son or brother about to "draw."
"And who, my dear child," said Mrs Hathaway, surprised at Penny's vehemence, "is Mrs Dicks?" She spoke quite kindly, and her face looked softer, so Penny was emboldened to tell her about the whole affair, and how Mrs Dicks was a very nice woman, and had six children to bring up on nothing. "I wanted to help her out of the charity-box," concluded Penny, "but there's scarcely anything in it."
I soon converted Polly to my way of thinking; and we put up a money-box in the nursery, in imitation of the alms-box in church. I am ashamed to confess that I was guilty of the meanness of changing a sixpence which I had dedicated to our "charity-box" into twelve half-pence, that I might have the satisfaction of making a dozen distinct contributions to the fund.
It was a great honour and delight, and she had saved up so many questions to ask about various subjects that she had scarcely time to tell her about Mrs Dicks and the state of the charity-box. They had just begun to talk about it, when Mrs Hawthorne stopped at a house near their own home. "Oh, mother!" cried Penny in some dismay, "are we going to see Mrs Hathaway?"
Mrs Hathaway looked really interested, and Penny began to think her rather a nice old lady after all. After she and her mother left the house she walked along for some time in deep thought. "What are you considering, Penny?" asked Mrs Hawthorne at last. "I think," said Penny very deliberately, "that as there's so little in the charity-box I should like to work for Mrs Dicks' children."
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