"How much you got?" asked the man eagerly. "Maybe I let you have these
dishes cheaper, but they's worth more as two dollars. How much you all
got?"
"How much have you?" asked Billy of Bert. Bert pulled some change from
his pocket. The two boys counted it.
"Eighty-seven cents," announced Bert, when they had counted it twice.
"Oh, that isn't half enough!" cried the old man.
"I have some money," announced Nan, bringing out her little purse.
"How much?" asked the man. That seemed to be all he could think about.
Nan and Nell counted the change. It amounted to thirty-two cents.
"How much is thirty-two and eighty-seven?" asked Nell.
Bert and Billy figured it on a piece of paper.
"A dollar and twenty-nine cents," announced, Bert.
"No, it's only a dollar and nineteen," declared Billy, who was a little
better at figures than was his chum.
"How much?" asked the old man, for the children had done their counting
on the other side of the room, and in whispers.
"A dollar and nineteen cents!" announced Billy.
"Oh, I couldn't let you have these dishes, for that," said the old man,
and he seemed about to take them from the counter where they had been
put, to place them back in the window.
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