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" Have you still," he asked, " that spare money ? 

 Would you be willing to lend it to me in hope of getting 

 it back again ? Should you wish it, I would pay you 

 interest for it. I have long felt the necessity of getting 

 away out of this miserable place. There is no trade, and 

 the risk is very great. I have had a sore struggle, and 

 have often been sadly grieved ; but this is the saddest ill 

 that has ever come to me. ... I am injured for ever. 

 I'll never make an extra farthing by my trade here. 

 The bakers are in swarms now. I am old, and my 

 strength and sight fail me. Before, I had hardships 

 quite enough ; but now, this crowns everything. I am 

 stupid with grief." 



Dick's sister earnestly sympathised with him. She 

 told him to cheer up to put his shoulder again to the 

 wheel, and that all might yet go well with him. She 

 sent him 20 of her spare money. She did so at consi- 

 derable sacrifice, as she required the money at that 

 time for special purposes. But she could not stand the 

 piteous entreaties of her brother, and sacrificed her own 

 requirements for his good. 



Dick plucked up heart again. He replied to his 

 sister : " I am not easily put down. I am neither in- 

 active nor desponding. I am trying a way of recover- 

 ing my loss. Your brother Robert is the most active 

 and laborious person in the county, and could not live 

 in idleness for one week. He does not entertain a single 

 thought of being beat." 



The "way of recovering his loss," to which Dick 

 alluded, was by selling his fossils. He had now a very 



