Just at the time; and there he found

The cripple in the mid-day heat

Standing alone, and at his feet

He saw the penny on the ground. 25

He stooped and took the penny up:[343]

And when the cripple nearer drew,

Quoth Andrew, “Under half-a-crown,

What a man finds is all his own,

And so, my friend, good-day to you.” 30

And hence I said, that Andrew’s boys