Gang hame, dawtie, and say yer prayers to be preserved frae the wiles o' Sawtan.

There 's a sixpence to ye." His kind heart was sorely grieved that all it could give was money.

She had asked for bread, and he had but a stone, as he thought, to give her.

So he gave it her with shame.

He might however have reversed the words of St Peter, saying, "Spiritual aid I have none, but such as I have give I thee;" and so offered her the sixpence.