I will keep tally.' The child dried his tears at once, and dashed to the back of the shop, whence he returned with a copper tray.
'Give me!' he said to Lurgan Sahib.

'Let them come from thy hand, for he may say that I knew them before.' 'Gently--gently,' the man replied, and from a drawer under the table dealt a half-handful of clattering trifles into the tray.
'Now,' said the child, waving an old newspaper.

'Look on them as long as thou wilt, stranger.

Count and, if need be, handle.

One look is enough for me.' He turned his back proudly.
'But what is the game ?' 'When thou hast counted and handled and art sure that thou canst remember them all, I cover them with this paper, and thou must tell over the tally to Lurgan Sahib.