Each child touched it, and found it real.

Auntie Hester and Auntie Rachel examined it.

Boulou was requested to smell it.

And then it was laid on the grass, and the pocket-handkerchief which had done duty as a table-cloth was spread over it.
The migrations of the half-penny were so extraordinary that even Rachel and Hester professed amazement.

Once it was found in Rachel's hand, into which another large hand had gently shut it.