nd see if we can find some work.
Ain't yer 'ungry?"

"Little." said Willie briefly.

Dame Fortune was kind to these poor little waifs this morning, for they had
not gone far on their travels when Willie's sharp eye spied something on
the ground. Eagerly he ran forward, and picked up a small silver coin,
which he held up with high glee for his brother to see.

"Why, Willie," exclaimed Bob, "you are lucky! That's a real silver
sixpence. Now you shall have a jolly good breakfast."

"Oh, yes," said Willie, "I am 'ungry. Ain't yer Bob?"

With light hearts the two boys went on, talking eagerly as to how the
sixpence should be spent. To these two poor little street arabs it seemed
almost unlimited wealth, for never in their short lives had they had so
much money to spend. Bob was determined to give Willie a treat, so,
without saying where they were going, he led the way to St. James's Park,
where they found a man in charge of a stall, with a cow standing near by.
With a very important air Bob marched up to the man, and asked for two
glasses of milk. The man looked at them rather suspiciously.
In their ragged clothes they looked very different from most of the people
who came to buy milk.

"Have you any money?" he asked.

"'Course we 'ave," answered Bob proudly. "Show 'im, Willie."

Willie held up his hand and showed the man the shining coin.

"Why, where, did you get that?" asked the man. That's a lot of money for a
little chap like you to have."

"I found it," said Willie, "and now we're goin' to 'ave some breakfast,
ain't we, Bob?"

The children ate their meal ravenously, the man watching them meanwhile.

"What are you going to do now?" he asked when they had finished.

"Find a crossin', fust thing," answered Bib.

"Well, good luck to you," said the man.

But Bob did not find it very easy work. It had been a dry season, and the
crossings were not muddy, so that there was very little to do. One or two
people, attracted by Willie's sweet face, gave him a copper, and just
before dinner a gentleman asked Bob to hold his horse, for which he gave
him threepence; and so they dragged on during the day, but it was very hot,
and poor little Willie soon got tired.

"Never mind, Willie," said Bob, "we'll go and sit in the park again
presently. Let's stay a little longer."

So Willie sat down on a doorstep and waited while Bob tried to earn a
little more. But at last he gave up in despair, and, taking Will