CHAPTER XIX.
BAD MONEY The baker introduced in the foregoing chapter was named Harding.
Singularly, Abel Harding was a brother of Timothy Harding, the cooper.
In many respects he resembled his brother.

He was an excellent man, exemplary in all the relations of life, and had a good heart.

He was in very comfortable circumstances, having accumulated a little property by diligent attention to his business.

Like his brother, Abel Harding had married, and had one child.

She had received the name of Ellen.
When the baker closed his shop for the night, he did not forget the new dollar, which he had received, or the disposal he told Ida he would make of it.
Ellen ran to meet her father as he entered the house.
"What do you think I have brought you, Ellen ?" he said, with a smile.
"Do tell me quick," said the child, eagerly.
"What if I should tell you it was a new dollar ?" "Oh, papa, thank you!" and Ellen ran to show it to her mother.
"Yes," said the baker, "I received it from a little girl about the size of Ellen, and I suppose it was that that gave me the idea of bringing it home to her." This was all that passed concerning Ida at that time.