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26 THE BOY TRAVELLERS.
I owed jour father a hundred dollars," said he, " I could not compel him
to accept the whole amount in ten-cent pieces, or twenty-five-cent pieces,
or even in half-dollars. When the government issues a coin, it places a
hmit for which that coin can be a legal tender. Tims the ten-cent piece
is a legal tender for all debts of one dollar or less, and the half-dollar for
debts of five dollars or less."
Mary said that when she was a child, ten cherries were exchanged
among her schoolmates for one ajiple, two apples for one pear, and two
pears for one orange. One day she took some oranges to school intend-
ing to exchange them for cherries, of which she was'very fond ;
she left
them in Katie Smith's desk, but Katie was hungry and ate one of the
oranges at recess.
" Not the first time the director of a bank has appropriated part of
the funds," said the Doctor. " Didn't you find that an orange would buy
more clierries or apples at one time than at another ?"
"Why, certainly," Mary answered, "and sometimes they wouldn't
buy any cherries at all."
"Bankers and merchants call that the fiiictuation of exchano-es," said
KATHLEEN S E.Xl'ECTATIONS FUR FKANK AND EHE1>.