"Why should I? I didn't find the ring. I had no claim to it."

 

"No matter, if he was willing to give it to you. He can afford it."

 

"I have no doubt of it; but I didn't want to take it."

 

"You ain't much like me, Henry. You wouldn't catch me refusing."

 

"I presume not," said Henry, smiling.

 

"I say, wasn't that a tiptop dinner?" said Sam, smacking¹ his lips as he thought of it. "It beats the restaurant all hollow. We'd have had to pay a dollar apiece for such a lot of things, and then they wouldn't have been so good."

 

"That's so, Sam. We can't expect to live like that every day."

 

"There's one thing seems funny, Henry—them bowls of water they bring on at the end to wash your hands in. I was just goin' to drink mine when I saw Mr. Chester wash his fingers in his. It don't seem nice to have wash bowls on the dinner-table."

 

"We never have been much into fashionable society, Sam. I've no doubt there are a good many things that would seem strange to us if we did."

 

"When I am rich, I'll live just like Mr. Chester," said Sam, enthusiastically.

 

"We have never been much into fashionable society, Sam. I've no doubt there are a good many things that would seem strange to us if we did."

 

"When I am rich, I'll live just like Mr. Chester," said Sam, enthusiastically.

 

"If you ever want to be rich, you must save up money."

 

"I can't now."

 

"Why can't you save up part of these twenty-five dollars?"

 

"I owe part of it to you."

 

"Only about five dollars."

 

"I've got to get along till the end of the week."

 

"You ought to be able to save fifteen dollars, at any rate. I'll go with you to the savings²-bank, and you can put it in to-night, I know a bank that keeps open till eight o'clock."

 

Sam hesitated, and looked reluctant.

 

"I guess I'll wait and see how much I need to carry me through the week," he said.

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