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I thank 'ee kind, I do and you, miss." "Ah'll thank 'ee, owd hoss, to pass no word agen Ned Blossom. My friend 'e be." Then, to the vast surprise of Bandy-legs, Dick pushed a half-crown into his hand, and added, pleasantly as you please: "Give nags feed an' rub down. And, when Ned comes rolling along to trot 'em home, tell 'im Sam Bunce won't forget Town Moor and Challacombe's Leger."
Ye needna tell him the noo what I tell't ye. Jimsie, summoned from play, was proud to go with his big brother. He was ill next day owing to a surfeit of good things consumed at high pressure, but not too ill to discuss what he would purchase with the half-crown that seemed to have stuck to his hot little paw. Back from the works, Macgregor found tea awaiting him.
You won't come?" he said with a grin. "Well, there's something for your obstinacy, you little mule!" He flung a half-crown across to her, and Jessica took it up, then looked him questioningly in the face. "You're thinking I'm mighty generous, eh? So I am, my girl foolishly generous." He laughed mockingly, "Well, what do you say if all the lot's for you, eh?"
The children had parted from their parents with great composure. Mrs. Stuart had reiterated parting injunctions to nurse, and their father had presented all five with a bright half-crown each, which gift greatly added to their delight at going. 'Not much affection in children's hearts, said Mr. Stuart to his wife, as he watched the beaming faces gathered round the cab window to wave 'good-bye.
But he promised to come when the business was all done. So I prayed to the God of father's Bible, and I went to the temple with Nalla and put down a half-crown it was all the money I had. But" her eyes filled with tears and her voice had a break in it "father begged so, and I came. But if Captain Corwin does not bring him next time I shall go back. I can't live without him."
If he is your friend, he's our friend, and we shall soon fall into line, but to-night you're here to meet about that half-crown. It's for you to say whether or no you'll have it. We've saved the money for the fight, saved it from your wages, got it with your sweat. You've given up your beer for it aye, and maybe your baccy. We've saved the money and the time's come to fight.
'I told Jones not to have any mustard put on them, answered his aunt; 'and, she continued, 'if you go to-day I shall give you half-a-crown. 'Shan't I have the half-crown if I don't go to-day? asked Jimmy eagerly. 'I hope you will go, she said. 'But you must not spend it in waste. 'I won't, cried Jimmy.
He remembered, just in time, that he had better not boast, or speak aloud, of having forgiven Lamb his debt in secret. He resolved that he would not say another word, but let the boys see that he did not care for money for its own sake. They were all wrong, but he would be above noticing it; and, besides, he really had been very anxious about his half-crown, and they had only mistaken the reason.
"It is very kind of you to come and see father," he said. "I am afraid that sometimes he is very lonely here. I will go away and leave you to talk." Mr. Bomford fumbled in his pocket. "Dear me!" he exclaimed. "Dear me! Ah, here is a half-crown! You must buy some chocolates or something to-morrow, young man. Or a gun, eh? Can one buy a gun for half-a-crown?" Alfred smiled at him.
Accordingly he presented me with the first half-crown I ever possessed, for though my father's gifts were frequent they were small.
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