"If you were to pay him for it, he would," exclaimed her friend; "supposeyou were to go every afternoon about five o'clock, as many others do,and buy some flowers, and then sell them at the market; you mightearn something, and that would be better than being idle, when poorMrs. Newton is not able to do for herself and you."

So when Fanny got back, she gave her dear grandmother the sixpence.

"The Lord be praised!" exclaimed Mrs. Newton, "for I scarcely knew how Iwas to get a loaf of goat cheese for thee or myself to-morrow."