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Updated: May 8, 2025
"To accept congratulations for that would be like robbing a poor-box in a church," laughed Jack. "It called for nothing but aiming the nose of the boat straight." "And, even under water," replied Danvers, "it calls for but few more calculations.
At the high altar there was a very fair Crucifixion; before this the priest bent one knee. "Fine picture, fine altar, fine church," he said in English. At last they stopped next the poor-box. As their coins clinked against those within, he smiled serenely upon the good heretics. Then he bowed, and, as if he had relapsed into the past, he vanished through the narrow door by which he had entered.
When he crossed the principal square of the town, where already at the time the magnificent Minster stood, he entered this church to pray once more, and to put another coin into the poor-box. Twilight was creeping through the aisles, and a pilgrimage being not at all an easy thing, our peasant soon fell asleep over his prayer-book. He only awoke, when, somebody pulled him by his sleeve.
"How much have you made for yourself to-day all round!" "Sevenpence three fardin's," confessed Prue, with an appealing look. "You know I don't allow you to take tips from my customers," went on Miss Tranter. "You must put those three farthings in my poor-box." "Yes'm!" sighed Prue meekly. "And then you may keep the sevenpence." "Oh thank y' 'm! Thank y', Mis' Tranter!"
And as Jesus stood in the Temple, he observed the well-to-do Nazarenes dip their hands into the basin, with pious air throw large pieces of money into the poor-box, and then look round to see if their good example was observed. When it grew dark, a poor woman came and with her lean fingers put a farthing into the poor-box. "Well, what do you say now?" asked the Rabbi of the carpenter.
A dozen gentlemen and ladies occupy a tank together, and amuse themselves with rompings and various games. They have floating desks and tables, and they read or lunch or play chess in water that is breast-deep. The tourist can step in and view this novel spectacle if he chooses. There's a poor-box, and he will have to contribute.
There were many wealthy people in the neighbourhood, and the poor-box generally yielded a plentiful harvest for the destitute. 'The key of the box was always kept in the rector's study, and occupied the same hook with the key of the church. The windows of this room were directly opposite to the church. No person had access to this apartment but Dr. Leatrim, his wife and son, and old Ralph.
This undoubtedly had a good deal to do with giving him such a good-natured appearance, that the boy at once placed confidence in him. In his left hand he held a wooden slate, and there the boy read: Most humbly I beg you, Though voice I may lack: Come drop a penny, do; But lift my hat! Oh ho! the man was only a poor-box. The boy felt that he had been done.
A peach-cheeked witch, a cherry-lipped conjuress; a Circe, with only enough charms to make a respectable photograph, might with impunity have called him a counterfeiter, or a horse-thief, or even a thimble-rigger; or might have told him that he would, upon opportunity, garotte his grandmother for the small price of seventy cents and her snuff-box; or that he was in the habit of attending funerals to pick the pockets of the mourners, and of going to church that he might steal the pennies from the poor-box, all this would he have borne uncomplainingly from a woman; but these unpalatable statements from one of the masculine gender would be “most tolerable and not to be endured.”
As for Derick, he seemed quite confident that this would be the case, and occasionally with a deriding gesture shook his lamp-feeder at the other boats. "The ungracious and ungrateful dog!" cried Starbuck; "he mocks and dares me with the very poor-box I filled for him not five minutes ago!" Then in his old intense whisper "give way, greyhounds! Dog to it!"
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