showed his wife the gold.

"Why, where did you get that?"

But he wouldn't tell her. Since she was curious, like all women, she
kept worrying him all night--for he'd put the money in a box under
the bed--so he told her about the fairies.

Next morning, when he awoke, he thought he'd go to the fair and buy
a lot of things, and he went to the box to get some of the gold, but
found it full of cockle-shells.




TOMMY PRITCHARD.

Tommy Pritchard was going to school one day, and on his way he
thought he heard somebody singing on the other side of a stone wall
by the road, so he climbed up and looked over, and there underneath
a stone he saw a sixpence, so he took it.

Every morning after that, when he went to school, he used to look in
the same place, and he always found a sixpence.

His father noticed he was always spending money in the sweet-shop,
so he began to think Tommy was stealing from somebody, and one day
he asked him where he got the money. Tommy wouldn't tell at first,
but his father threatened to beat him, so he told him where he got
his sixpences.