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The Money-jug.
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The rag-mother nodded her wicked old head.
“Then to-morrow the wedding shall be,” she said.

And now there ’s a noise in the hall outside,
 And two little children come in the door;
With eager steps they hurry by
 Where the doll-house stands on the nursery floor.
They take the money-jug down from the shelf;
 “Now I ll be full,” said he to himself.



Said the little boy to the little girl,
 “We will get our Christmas money out.”
Crack,smash! they broke the money-jug,
 And all the pennies rolled about.
The rag-mother nodded her wicked old head;
 “And that is the end of him,” she said.
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