At any rate, he strode away and left the cent in the road, ahumiliated boy. The next day he told Jim Gates about it. Jim saidhe was green not to take the money; he'd go and look for it now, ifhe would tell him about where it dropped. And Jim did spend an hourpoking about in the dirt, but he did not find the cent. Jim,however, had an idea; he said he was going to dig sweet-flag, and seeif another carriage wouldn't come along.