"Twelve cents."
"And colored?"
"Wal, they were consider'ble."
"And paper?"
"Six cents. 'T used to be half a cent Six cents now."
"But the reason?" breathlessly.
"Reckoned 'twas the war's much as anything."
One good thing out of Nazareth! Little Jane saw herself on the road to riches, and immediately had thoughts of selling the whole household-equipment for rags. She displayed her commodities.
"Did he pay in money?"
"Didn't like to; but then he did."