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Updated: July 18, 2025
"Well," said Penny, making fruitless attempts to thread her needle, "I suppose mother will help her to get some money. I shall ask her to let me give her some out of the charity-box only I'm afraid there isn't much in it now."
So she cobbled over the last stitches rather hastily, and put the work away; but she found after all that her mother was too busy to attend to her just then. The next step, therefore, was to ascertain the state of the charity-box, and she took it down from the mantel-piece in the play-room and gave it a little shake.
"Penny," said Mrs Hawthorne, "have you looked in the charity-box lately?" "Why, no, mother," answered she, "because I know there's only twopence three farthings in it." "Go and look," said her mother. And what do you think Penny found? The bright farthing was gone, and in its place there was a shining little half-sovereign. How did it come there? That I will leave you to guess.
She kept two boxes, one of which she called her "charity-box," and into this was put the half of any money she had given to her; this her mother helped her to spend in assisting any poor people who specially needed it. The money in the other box was saved up until there was enough to buy a new book, but this did not occur very often.
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