'So you've cheated me out of a cent at last,' she said, half laughing and half in earnest; 'you are a sad rogue.' A little boy was standing by.
'Here, Charley,' she said to him, 'is a penny I have just saved.

You can buy a candy with it.' "As I turned away from the door of the large, beautiful house in which that lady lived, I felt something rising in my throat and choking me; I had bitter thoughts of all my kind.
"Happily, where I next stopped, I met with one more considerate.

She bought two bunches of my fish at my own price--spoke very kindly, to me, and even went so far, seeing that I looked jaded out, to tell me to go down into her kitchen and rest myself for a little while.
"Leaving my tub of fish in her yard, I accepted the kind offer.

It so happened that the cook was making tea for some one in the house who was sick.

The lady asked me if I would not like to have a cup.