What is yours now ?" "Fifty cents, papa." "Where is your purse ?" She took it from her pocket, and put it into his hand.
"Only five cents in it," he remarked, with a smile, when he had examined.
Then, taking a handful of loose change from his pocket, he counted out four bright quarters and ten dimes, and poured them into her purse.
"O papa! so much!" she cried delightedly, "I feel ever so rich!" He laughed at that.

"Now," he said, "you shall have a dollar every week, unless I should have to withdraw it on account of some sort of bad behavior on your part.

Max is to have the same; Gracie half a dollar till she is a little older: and you are all to keep an account of your spendings." He took from another pocket, three little blank-books.
"One of these is for you: the others are for your brother and sister," he said.

"See, there is a blank space for every day in the week; and, Whenever you lay out any money, you must write down in the proper place what it was that you bought, and how much it cost." "And show it to you, papa ?" "Once in a while: probably, whenever I hand you your allowance, I shall look over your account for the week that is just past, and tell you what I think of the way you have laid out your money, in order to help you to learn to spend it judiciously.".