THE TWO COUSINS. 31

 

a quarter-eagle—a gold piece
worth two dollars and a half.”

Mary tried, as she said she
meant to do, that very day,
to learn the first five verses,
which she had already read.
She could not say them by
heart the next day, though.
But she tried again, and she
ried until she learned them.
By-and-by, too, she learned

the whole fourteen verses, so