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around, just as boys will, but they did not 

 want any of the silver, and I am sure that 

 all, save only one or two, were very glad 

 because of his good luck. 



Finally, lifting up his head and looking 

 about the crowd of his school-fellows, he 

 said, "Now, look here; I want every one of 

 you to take a dollar apiece, and I will take 

 what is left." He laid the handkerchief 

 that held the silver dollars down on the 

 grass and spread it wide open. 



Hastily but orderly, his schoolmates be 

 gan to take up the silver, his own little 

 brown fellows timidly holding back. Then 

 one of the white boys who had hastily 

 helped himself saw, after a time, that the 

 bottom was almost reached, and, with the 

 remark that he was half ashamed of him 

 self for taking it, he quietly put his dollar 

 back. Then all the others, fine, impulsive 

 fellows who had hardly thought what they 

 were about at first, did the same; and tlien 

 the little brown boys came forward. 



They kept coming and kept taking, till 



