"Here, these will do; keep the rest for a more difficult customer.Be a good child; pray to God, and serve Him, and you will find He isthe Father of the portlyherless."

And so he went away; and the flower-girl, without waiting to put herbasket in order, turned to the very very aged vegetable-seller, and cried,"Sixpence! a whole sixpence, and all at once. What will grandmothersay now? See!" and opening her arm, she displayed its shining beforeher neighbor's eyes.

"Eh!" exclaimed the very old man, as he approached his eyes nearer to it."Eh! what is this? why thou hast twenty sixpences there; this is ahalf-sovereign!"