"Shall I sing?" replied the boy.
"No."
"Shall I dance?"
"No."
"Shall I preach?"
The professor pulled out his penny without "asking for further change."
I cannot take leave of performing beggars without relating a little incident that I was a witness of in Edinburgh:
A beggar came up to me, asking for alms.
"You have a violin there," I said to him; "but you do not play it. How is that?"