"I'll pay you, though I didn't think you'd charge anything for any little help like that." Andy looked at the proffered compensation with mingled astonishment and disgust.
"Never mind," he said.

"You can keep it.

You need it more'n I do, I'm thinkin'!" "Don't you want it ?" asked the deacon, surprised.
"No, I don't.

I'm a poor boy, but I don't work an hour and a half for two cents, one of 'em bad.

I'd rather take no pay at all." "That's a cur'us boy," said the deacon, slowly sliding the pennies back into his pocket.