Yet even this Elizabeth could bear!
David was meanwhile standing by the locker, his fingers at work as if
he were playing a tune, his lips counting away, "Ninety-two, ninety-
three, ninety-four--that's me; ninety-five, ninety-six, ninety-seven-
-that's Jack," and so on; till having plodded up diligently, he
turned round with a little scream, "One hundred and twenty! That's
the pig!"
"What?" cried Annie.
"One hundred and twenty pence. Sukey said one hundred and twenty
pence were ten shillings. That will do it! That's the pig! Oh,
we've done it! May I take it to Purday?"
"It was to be let alone till fair-day, you little bother!" said Hal.
"No, no, no," cried many voices; "only till we had enough."
"And I am sure nobody knows if we have," added Hal hotly. "A lot of
halfpence, indeed!"
"But I know, Hal," insisted David. "There are eighty-nine pence and
one farthing in Toby Fillpot, and this makes one hundred and twenty-
two pence and one farthing."
"You'd no business to peep," said Sam.
"I didn't peep," said David indignantly. "There were forty-eight
pence at first, and then Susie had three, that was fifty-one--" And
he would have gone on like a little calculating machine, with the
entire reckoning in his head, if the others had had patience to hear;
but Annie and Johnnie were urgent to have the sum counted out before
their eyes.
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