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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 then 

 the little brown boys came forward. 



They kept coming and kept taking, till 



