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In which Benny makes a Discovery.
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face as he hurried past, would turn to have another look at the child, and without taking any of her fusees, would put a penny, and sometimes more, into the little thin hand. And Nelly would courtsey her thanks, unable to utter a word.

Many a gentleman would put a penny into the little thin hand.

Benny declared "he liked Christmas-time mazin' well, and wondered why folks didn't have Christmas a sight oftener than once a year." How it was that coppers were so