At this instant a party of milk-women went by; and one of them, having set down her pail, came behind Jem, and gave him a pretty smart blow upon the back.
He looked up.
"And don't you know me?" said she.
"I forget," said Jem.
"I think I have seen your face before, but I forget."
"Do you so? And you'll tell me just now," said she, half opening her hand, "that you forget who gave you this, and who charged you not to part with it too."
Here she quite opened her large hand, and on the palm of it appeared Jem's silver penny.
"Where," exclaimed Jem, seizing it, "O where did you find it? And have you—O tell me, have you got the rest of my money?"
"I don't know nothing of your money—I don't know what you would be at," said the milk-woman.
"But where, pray tell me, where did you find this?"