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Updated: May 12, 2025
"I 'ain't got any money with me, but I'll pay you the next time I come in." The old clerk's common face turned suddenly grave, and acquired thereby a certain distinction. He turned about, took off the cover of the glass jar, and gathered up a handful of the molasses-balls and put them in a little paper bag. Then he came forth from behind the counter and approached the boy.
"What you doing so for?" said he; then he looked into the eyes again and was still. "It's jest this," said William Price. "Here's a little bag of them molasses-balls, I'll give 'em to ye; but don't you never, as long as you live, buy anything you 'ain't either got the money to pay for in your fist, ready, or know jest where it's comin' from.
He straightened himself and looked very hard at the glass jar of molasses-balls on the shelf behind the clerk. "There might be a stray one," said William Price. "It's a warm day." "Shucks!" said Eddy. "Say, how much are those a pound?" The clerk glanced around at the jar of molasses-balls. "Twenty-five cents," replied he. "Guess I'll take a pound," said Eddy.
"Didn't he ever take anything that didn't belong to him?" asked Eddy. "Never. I guess he didn't. John wasn't that kind of a boy. I'd have trusted him with anythin'." "Then he must have gone to heaven, I suppose," said Eddy. He looked soberly into the old clerk's eyes. "Thank you for the molasses-balls," he said.
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