certain time and never forgetting to
give it. That's the reason I wanted my ten cents now, so that I can put
some of it in the box to-morrow morning. And, O papa! would it trouble
you to give it to me all in pennies?"

"Not at all," said her father gravely, and he counted out ten pennies,
taking back the dime. "Now how much of that goes in the cardinal box?"

"One penny for tenths and two as a thank-offering, because I'm thankful
that I've got started. So to-morrow morning three pennies will rattle
into the box."

"Why to-morrow?"

"Because it's the first day of the week. That's the New Testament plan,
'lay by in store on the first day of the week.'"

Then she climbed on her father's knee and told him all her day's
experience. He approved of her plans and said he hoped she would be able
to carry them out.

"I think," he said, "it is a very good thing for small folks to learn to
spend their money wisely, and a better thing to learn to be willing to
share the good they have with those not so well off. But you will have
to watch yourself very carefully, for it wont be so easy to do all this
when the novelty wears off as it is now."

"Oh! I'm always going to do this way," said Marty very determinedly,
"all my life."

She always entered with heart and soul into whatever interested her, and
all that week she could hardly think of anything but the mission-band
and the money she was saving for it. By Wednesday she had dropped two
more pennies into the box--a free-will-offering she told her mother--and
did not spend a cent for anything, though one of her dolls was really
suffering for a pink sash.

She was a great deal of the time with Edith, who gave her the most
glowing accounts of what they did at the band--how they had recitations
and dialogues and items, how they made aprons and kettle-holders and
sold them, and how Miss Agnes read most interesting missionary stories
to them while they sewed. She also told of a beautiful letter the
secretary, Mary Cresswell, had written to the lady missionary in the
school in Lahore, India, which the Twigs supported, and how they were
anxiously looking for a reply. Miss Agnes said they must not expect a
reply very soon, for missionaries were very busy people and had not
much time for letter-writing. But the girls thought that Mrs. C----, the
missionary, would be so pleased with Mary's letter she would certainly
make time to write, at least a tiny answer.

"Does the band support