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"Why," said a voice he seemed to know, "you're my young friend of the crossing, my little fourpenny-bit, I call you. What brings you sitting here this cold night?" "I've fell down and hurt myself," answered Tony, faintly. "Where?" asked the stranger. "My leg," he answered.
"I've lived in a many places, and I've heard tell of a many ghostes," she said; "but never yet did I set eyes on one, which my opinion is that, if people will eat cold pork for supper underdone, not to mention crackling or seasoning, and bottled stout, which is worse, and lies still heavier on the stomach unless you take about as much ground ginger as would lie on a sixpence, and as much carbonate of soda as would lie on a fourpenny-bit and go to bed upon it all directly afterwards, they will see no end of ghostes.
"That's a bad look-out for Christmas-eve. Why don't you go over to Watts's?" "What's Watts's?" "It's a house in High Street, where you'll get a good supper, a bed, and a fourpenny-bit in the morning if you can show you'em an honest man, and not a regular tramp. There's old Watts's muniment down by the side of the choir.
"I gave my fourpenny-bit and two halfpennies, but Audrey gived me one halfpenny back. Uncle Geoff buyed the things, but Audrey and Tom gaved him lotses of money," said Racey. "Hush, Racey, it's very rude to tell people what things cost like that," I said reprovingly.
It seemed so long ago that he spoke of his love for her as if it was a thing altogether passed away and dead, yet his heart still ached at the memory of it. "Well, here's another fourpenny-bit for you," said his friend, "quite a new one. See how bright it is; no one has ever bought anything with it yet. Dolly will like to see it."
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