XX The New Penny
Miss Ann saw a Man,
Quite poor, at a door,
And Ann had a pretty new penny;
Now this the kind Miss
Threw pat in his hat,
Although she was left without any.
She meant, as she went,
To stop at a shop,
Where cakes she had seen a great many;
And buy a fruit-pie,
Or take home a cake,
By spending her pretty new penny.
But well I can tell,
When Ann gave the man
Her money, she wish’d not for any:
He said, “I’ve no bread,”
She heard, and preferr’d
To give him her pretty new penny.