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She kept her fist shut on the two half-dollars for the parson; the wedding ring, jammed on the first joint of her little finger for safety, gave her an atrocious pain. At length they reached Cleveland street, and halted opposite the church.
She cleverly put on red and black sealing wax heads, turning them out as round as the skillful manipulation of deft fingers could make them. In this new employment, the boy kept her well occupied, many half-dollars thereby finding their way into her little till. "I wish Phronsie had come," said Polly, as she and Jasper sorted the pins in the little wooden tray Candace kept for the purpose.
More by token, here's three dollars I brought home with me yisterday." Andy pulled out from his pocket six silver half-dollars, and offered them to his mother. "Where did you get them, Andy?" she asked, in surprise. "Where did I get them? One way and another, by overwork. We won't starve while them last, will we?" Andy's cheerful tone had its effect upon his mother.
Probably one of our silver half-dollars would have purchased all that his saintship left at the peasant Bouman's; but a half-dollar's worth will sometimes do for the poor what hundreds of dollars may fail to do for the rich; it makes them happy and grateful, fills them with new peace and love. Hilda van Gleck's little brothers and sisters were in a high state of excitement that night.
When the shower was over, the faces came out shining like roses after rain, and the voices went on again as before. "Don't you wish there really was a Santa Claus, who knew what we wanted, and would come and put two silver half-dollars in our stockings, so we could go and see Puss in Boots at the Museum to-morrow afternoon?"
They burst into a laugh, and with a sort of mocking gesture they threw her the half-dollars, and ran back to the pay-ground. In spite of their vexatious tricks, she seemed very fond of them, and never failed to beg something of her Father, that she might bestow upon them.
They were not an avaricious set, either; for their parting ceremony, on embarking, was to pitch the last half-dollars of their advance on to the wharf, to be scrambled for by the land-sharks. But "Money down" was the standing chorus. I once heard, though not on board that ship, the lively chorus of "Off she goes, and off she must go,"
At one side of the room was a small closet without a door, but with a dark and dirty curtain hung before its aperture. Around it was a wooden railing, breast high. A boy with a high forehead, and hair combed behind ears large and flaring like those of a rabbit, sat by the door, and took the tickets of invited guests and the half-dollars of the casuals.
The window seat was covered with black velvet, and on it lay little glittering heaps of money, in gold and silver; some quarters some half-dollars some dollars some five dollar and some ten dollar pieces. I shouldn't have looked twice after them, but, crouched down upon the sidewalk, so close to the broker's window that his face almost touched it, was a little boy about ten years old.
There was a multiplicity of small drawers which he opened eagerly, but he found no cash except four silver half-dollars and some smaller silver. "It isn't here!" he said in a tone of sullen disappointment, turning a baffled look upon the farmer's wife. "No, sir, I didn't think it was there." "Where do you think it is? Do you think your husband has it with him?" "No, sir." "Where then can it be?
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