Here's a Penny by Carolyn Haywood

Author:Carolyn Haywood [Haywood, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

"Oh," said Peter.

"Do you think I could sell 'em?" said Penny.

"Well," replied Peter, "I know a good corner where nobody sells 'em."

"Do you have a corner?" asked Penny.

"No, I don't have a corner," replied Peter. "I just take my papers in my express wagon and deliver them to my customers."

"Gee!" said Penny. "Do you have customers?"

"Oh, sure!" said Peter. "I have a lot of customers."

"Do you make a lot of money?" asked Penny, his eyes growing very big.

"I do pretty good," said Peter, "counting the presents I get from my customers at Christmas."

Penny's eyes grew even bigger. "You get presents from your customers!" he exclaimed.

"Yep!" said Peter.

Just then the bell rang and the two boys parted.

That night Penny dreamed that he had hundreds of customers and that they were all giving him watches. He had great piles of watches. He was shoveling them into an express wagon when he woke up.

The next day Penny watched for Peter in the school yard. At last he saw him. He went up to Peter and said, "Peter, where is the corner where I could sell newspapers?"

"Well, if you really want to," said Peter, "I'll take you over. When do you want to start?"

"Oh, I can start today," said Penny.

"Okay!" said Peter. "I'll meet you at the front door right after school."

"Okay!" said Penny.

"Don't be late," Peter called after Penny.

Penny could hardly wait for school to be over. At last the bell rang. Penny was the first one out of the door.

Patsy called after him, "Hey, Penny! Wait for me." But Penny didn't even hear her.

He reached the front door of the school just as Peter arrived.

"Come on," said Peter. "We have to get our papers first. How much money have you?"

"Money?" said Penny. "I haven't any money. I'm going to get some, selling papers."

Peter stood stock-still. "Well, you have to buy the papers before you can sell them," he said.

"You have to buy them!" exclaimed Penny, looking very puzzled.

"Sure!" said Peter. "They don't give them to you. You buy them for two cents apiece and sell them for three cents. That way you make a cent on each sale."

"Oh!" said Penny. "Well, I guess I can't sell any, 'cause I haven't any money to buy the papers."

"Well," said Peter, "tell you what we'll do. I'll buy you twelve papers. That will be twenty-four cents. Then, after you sell 'em, you can give me back the twenty-four cents. Okay?"

"Okay," said Penny.

The boys hurried along. Soon they came to a little store. Outside of the store stood a crowd of boys. They were mostly big boys. Just as Peter and Penny joined the group a newspaper truck stopped in front of the crowd. The boys rushed up to the truck.

Peter ran into the store and brought out his express wagon. "I park it here," he said to Penny.

There was a great deal of shouting and laughing as the man on the truck handed the big bundles of newspapers to the boys.

When Peter stepped up to the truck, he said, "Twelve extra tonight.

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