Go along with you." So they went.
And some people were kind, and some were crusty.

And some would give and some would not.

It is rather difficult work asking for things, even for other people, as you have no doubt found if you have ever tried it.
When the children got home and counted up what had been given and what had been promised, they felt that for the first day it was not so bad.
Peter wrote down the lists of the things in the little pocket-book where he kept the numbers of his engines.

These were the lists:-- GIVEN.
A tobacco pipe from the sweet shop.
Half a pound of tea from the grocer's.
A woollen scarf slightly faded from the draper's, which was the other side of the grocer's.
A stuffed squirrel from the Doctor.
PROMISED.
A piece of meat from the butcher.
Six fresh eggs from the woman who lived in the old turnpike cottage.
A piece of honeycomb and six bootlaces from the cobbler, and an iron shovel from the blacksmith's.
Very early next morning Bobbie got up and woke Phyllis.

This had been agreed on between them.