LESSON 67 THE RUN-AWAY PENNY

THE RUN-AWAY PENNY

1. Tom was so pleased when his mother gave him a new money-box.

I shall save all my pennies in it, he said.

2. Daddy gave him a penny and he popped it in.

3. Every time Tom lifted his money-box, the penny rattled.

4. One day his grand-ma gave him three pennies. The penny in the box was so happy.

Now I shall have some mates with me, it thought.

5. But Tom forgot all about his money-box. He ran off to a shop to buy a new red top.

6. Later, when Uncle Jack gave him a penny, he spent that too.

The money-box felt sad and lonely.

7. Some time after, a fairy came by.

She peeped into the box and saw the penny. She spoke to it.

8. It told her that Tom had spent all the other pennies that had been given to him and that it was very lonely.

9. "I shall help you to get out of this box," she said. This, she did.

10. Then she took the penny to the box of a little boy who saved his money.

11. At last it was happy, for in this box were many other coins.

12. The next time Tom lifted his money- box, no penny rattled in it.

He does not know to this day, that a fairy helped the lonely penny to run away.