THE BISHOP AND THE GEESE
When they reached the beach again the old lady was just in the act of departing for her lunch. She cheerfully paid the donkey man, but Jill was watching the transaction anxiously, and pursued the man to the end of the beach, where she held an earnest conversation with him.
"Jill is trying to make him give up his tenth," said Jack confidentially to the old lady. "I don't think she'll do it."
"What do you mean, child?"
Explanation followed, and with Bumps' eager and breathless interruptions, the old lady got quite mystified.
"Why do you keep talking about a tenth?" she said.
"Because it's a tenth that God expects from everybody," said Jack. "I suppose you give yours to somebody to look after, don't you?"
"I don't give a tenth of my money away at all," said the lady snappishly. "That is an old Jewish law. Thank goodness, we are not Jews, but Christians."
"But Miss Falkner told us it wasn't only meant for Jews," argued Jack. "She says everybody who gets money from God ought to give back some to Him."