32 DANDIE, THE MISER.

shilling, Dandie, and you shall have a biscuit.” On this
Dandie rose, and placed the coin, which he had picked up un-
observed by those present, upon the table.

Dandie, who had many friends, used to receive a penny
from one of them every day, which he took to a baker’s shop
and got a roll for himself in exchange. It happened that
one of them was asked by Dandie for his usual present, when
he had no money in his pocket. “I have not a penny with
me to-day, but I have one at home,” said the gentleman,
scarcely believing that Dandie understood him. On returning
to his house, however, he found Dandie at the door, seeking
admittance, and evidently come for his penny. The gentle-
man, happening to have a bad penny, gave it him; but the
baker refused to give him a roll for it. Dandie, receiving it
back, returned to the door of the giver, and when a servant
had opened it, laid the false coin at her feet, and walked
away with an angry air.

Dandie, however, often received more money than he
needed for his wants, and took to storing it up. This was
known by his master, from his appearing one Sunday morning
with a roll in his mouth, when it was not likely he would
have received a present. Suspecting this, Mr. M'Intyre told
a servant to search his room—in which Dandie slept—for
money. The dog watched her, without seeming to do so, till
she came near his bed, when, seizing her gown, he drew her -
from it. On her persisting, he growled, and struggled so ’
violently that his master was obliged to hold him, when the_
woman discovered sevenpence-halfpenny. From that time
he showed a strong dislike to the woman, and’ used to hide
his money under a heap of dust at the back of the house.