GOLDEN GUINEAS
"Do you want to buy that?" asked Jane.
"No, silly,—we'll hire it. And then we'll go to Rochester and buy heaps and heaps of things. Look here, let's each take as much as we can carry. But it's not sovereigns. They've got a man's head on one side and a thing like the ace of spades on the other. Fill your pockets with it, I tell you, and come along. You can talk as we go—if you must talk."
Cyril sat down and began to fill his pockets.
"You made fun of me for getting father to have nine pockets in my suit," said he, "but now you see!"
They did. For when Cyril had filled his nine pockets and his handkerchief and the space between himself and his shirt front with the gold coins, he had to stand up. But he staggered, and had to sit down again in a hurry.
"Throw out some of the cargo," said Robert. "You'll sink the ship, old chap. That comes of nine pockets."
And Cyril had to do so.
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