Chapter 94
The Silver ShillingTHERE was once a shilling, which came forth from the mint
springing and shouting, "Hurrah! now I am going out into the wide
world." And truly it did go out into the wide world. The children
held it with warm hands, the miser with a cold and convulsive
grasp, and the old people turned it about, goodness knows how many
times, while the young people soon allowed it to roll away from
them. The shilling was made of silver, it contained very little
copper, and considered itself quite out in the world when it had
been circulated for a year in the country in which it had been
coined. One day, it really did go out into the world, for it
belonged to a gentleman who was about to travel in foreign lands.
This gentleman was not aware that the shilling lay at th
