"Where have you been now?" she asked him. He had come to breakfast only after being called a dozen times and he had disappeared immediately after breakfast. "What have you been doing?"
The little fellow laughed and poured into her lap a handful of nickels and ten-cent pieces.
"Where in the world did you get those?" demanded Mrs. Vereshchagin. "Who gave them to you?"
"A man in the road."
"A man in the road? All that money? What for?"
"I gave him the shiny thing and he gave me those moneys."
"What shiny thing?"
"The shiny thing I found on the floor."
"Where on the floor?"
"In the dining-room, and the youngster ran into the house to point out exactly the place where he had found the 'shiny thing.'"