144 TRUE BEAR STORIES.

around, just as boys will, but they did not
want any of the silver, and I am sure that
all, save only one or two, were very glad
because of his good luck.

Finally, lifting up his head and looking
about the crowd of his school-fellows, he
said, “Now, look here; I want every one of
you to take a dollar apiece, and I will take
what is left.” He laid the handkerchief
that held the silver dollars down on the
grass and spread it wide open.

Hastily but orderly, his schoolmates be-
gan to take up the silver, his own little
brown fellows timidly holding back. Then
one of the white boys who had hastily
helped himself saw, after a time, that the
bottom was almost reached, and, with the
remark that he was half ashamed of him-
self for taking it, he quietly put his dollar
back. Then all the others, fine, impulsive
fellows who had hardly thought what they
were about at first, did the same; and then
the little brown boys came forward.

They kept coming and kept taking, till