Zwanzig--twenty schelling, that cup.

Old lady bought von, vill come again buy anoder.
Zwanzig--twenty schelling.' "I grew more and more eager.

The old lady he spoke of must be my grandmother; I had often heard my father laugh at her for poking about old shops; I felt perfectly certain the cups were exactly alike.

I begged the old man to let me have it, and opened my purse to show him all I had--the ten shilling piece, two sixpences and a fourpenny, and a few coppers.

That was all, and the old man shook his head.