“Penny,” said Mrs Hawthorne, “have you looked in the charity-box lately?”
“Why, no, mother,” answered she, “because I know there’s only twopence three farthings in it.”
“Go and look,” said her mother.
And what do you think Penny found? The bright farthing was gone, and in its place there was a shining little half-sovereign. How did it come there?
That I will leave you to guess.
Story 6 -- Chapter 1.
The Black Pigs—A True Story.
“I know what we must do—we must sell them at the market!”