Pass the hat.

Make it about ten for the cake.

Come on, now, let's find out about these folks." Curly was distinctly unhappy all the time McKinney was away.

It was half an hour before the latter came back, but the look on his face betrayed him.

Dan Anderson made him confess that he still had the ten dollars in his pocket, that he had been afraid to knock at the door, and that he had learned nothing whatever of the household from Kansas.
McKinney admitted that his nerve had failed, and that he dared not knock, but he said that he had summoned courage enough to look in at the window.