Show for AH A I 1 I 1 bouno you n a folks wao wh 0 are living livina 0 I 1 to learn le arn P 0 1 I 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 ai I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 0 I 1 11 11 11 ii both bo th fact and an d fiction I 1 in n veru V CT U agreeable I 1 I 1 I 1 1 doses D 4 I 1 I 1 A W it ne I 1 lff I 1 J 11 I 1 11 A I 1 11 I 1 I 1 D T K 11 I 1 4 3 64 1 I jay I I 1 f 1 I 1 I 1 aj 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 kit 14 1 J T was wag a beautiful shining coin and IT I 1 I 1 when it came into the posses possession slon of Johnny Daugherty one evening his first thought was of the candy shop hop at the te corner that was waa the place where most of johnnys pennies went he held the copper up to the maht eghi as an lie he trudged home with the book which ho he had been sent to borrow from old mr Jor borkins kins and it glittered to antle angly that he decided to keep it for awhile it looks like an all gold penny johnny observed as an later he sat by the open 0 p e n fireplace playing pla with ills his lind find jingle went the atla coin to the hearth T I 1 as the result of a car careless elass toss U and nd d down wn went I 1 johnny on his hie hands bands and knees knee in search of it Penni pennies eshad had been rare for the last few months owing to the hard I 1 t i m a s or as aa johnnys father 1 I who worked in a home with the jt bank said tile th took book scarcity of money meney y jo johnny anny understand why money fj be scarce for when he went to ohp bank there seemed scorned to be aa I 1 anu much ch cash caba there as ever johnnia John Jh nya nyla father explained that instead of buying this Ms or that as they had been ace accustomed un to do people stayed away from the shops then 0 of course tho the shop keepers had no money an and d could not pay their debth debt or their employees and everything was at sixes and sevens it odd that the lack lac k of a few bits of paper and tiny coins could make so much trouble to in the world 0 of course co urise copey being scarce jt it was a good deal of a disappointment to lose e the newly coin but what was the boys surprise to fo discover that it had rolled under the andiron and was being I 1 slowly melted by I 1 I 1 tho the ras gas that t h a t pl blazed through the artificial lor I 1 johnny daugherty I 1 considered II 11 himself a very experienced perien ced young I 1 person but his I 1 eyed popped out of his I 1 head as he razed gazed razi gazi I 1 there was that penny dissolving first into a glittering fluid 1 and then evajo V into a little cloud arid the shining cloud formed of a uffie titan man twisted and swirled and ad altif un until til finally it formed the og of a little litte man mali wearing a short belted coat coa loni boots that curled up at the tops and a pointed cap on his bushy little head well I 1 WILS afraid you were going to take me into into that sticky candy chop piped t the copper man im sure you dott dont appreciate rny my kind enough I 1 have heard that a good many of of I 1 my family have been sent by you to the candy womans comans till where they were prisoners for many a day mrs smithers hoards her money johnny stared in fascinated til silence lence while the little mian man went on persuasively 11 now what do you say to taking a stroll with me I 1 will take you to visit some of my relatives 1 I dont mind was johnnys answer I 1 well 0 come 0 in t 14 closer to the fire directed the copper I 1 man and nd as I 1 johnny did so he felt himself h I 1 in 11 it shrink until h he I 1 i was no taller ta 11 er than his companion the little fellow skipped to I 1 W the front of the I 1 I 1 come com e closer to the A fireplace hopped fire to the side ot of an I 1 andiron and grasping johnnys hand sprang up the chimney as it by magic lie he whisked the little boy over the chimney tops and before lie he could coula gaft his breath set him down in tha midst of a vast forest in which a group pt of white men were bargaining kith pome gome negroes for the ostrich feathers fea theiss and the elephant which they carried when whan the trade was concluded the purchasers sero handed the sellers strings of shells small email shells but evidently much prized by th the blak black men inen I 1 I 1 these said the little copper man are the chell money of central I 1 f I 1 11 J I 1 1 I 1 A 1 J f I 1 ir wt I 1 I 1 7 get bet him own in n a vast loreff fert ft N I 1 africa it takes a great mandof than alier to make a dollar and so they are all strung together as an you yog see them then they new flew away to the south sea isea islands where johnny I 1 saw the natives I 1 curious rope money made of tiny bright colored feathers or fox fur prom the south sea islands they went to china where the were trading with strands of cash copper coppe coins I 1 about the size of a penny with a hole in I 1 4 through which all a e string was wag run I 1 even a cartload I 1 of this cash Is not very valuable I 1 I 1 I 1 and so when 11 11 a 9 man wishes to I 1 travel in the interior of china he takes a silver brick instead of cash and whenever he needs to make a payment chips oft off a bit of johnny saw sato burlous curi oits the brick and accepts rope money tho the change in cash our term cash doos not coma come from this but from the french word caisse meaning cotter coffer or chest in n these ready money was once kept I 1 from china the two flirted flitted to australia tr alia where they beheld the last of the bush buehr rangers angers with the pieces of greenstone useful for making hatchets which they exel exchange fange with other tribes who w have som something athing they want the little copper man took johnnys hand band saying now I 1 will show you tho the money of the past cewill r find pictures of I 1 it in the he palace 4 of the yesterdays just juat where the palace of the y T e ster days t 1 stands johnny johnnye John nyi Is unable to tell but he found it 1 to be a wonderfully large building fu with many 1 many ro rooms 0 ni s opening arm ya va I 1 rious alous corridors I 1 1 hero hem 9 said a I 1 d I 1 7 the little copper tuy they ant ts ft chino chin man 18 is ityl living ng I 1 money and they went into a room that looked like all outdoors sturdy light haired hafrid men dressed so zed in cloaks and rough sho shoes es were walking about under tiie the trees I 1 these are th fh s q samo saxons n s the forefathers of the eng ene az 1 r lish the copper ja man explained explained g cattle were the I 1 money tiey of these I 1 i 1 rodope rude people ople this k A i I 1 they called live I 1 I 1 7 money they had 1 I 1 also what they I 1 I 1 called deadmon ey crude coins I 1 ap made of matal I 1 9 I 1 they went into I 1 the room where J they saw the north american I 1 t indians buying things from one I 1 I 1 a nother another with strings of wampum beads made I 1 11 from claw clam shells I 1 1 Toba tobacco coRmoney money the IMo fAo bush was seen in th the d r ap igers room where tha th early virginia planters were shown making alting in the brown weed their medium of 0 exchange the th white settlers sett lors money in his transactions with the indians made johnny blush it was bottles of I 1 firewater I 1 of the poorest quality the half hair civilized civili sed northerner like the eskimo the laplander and wild tribesman of siberia 81 berla was waa exchanging hla his furs for the commodities of the traders from the south the laplanders La herds of reind reindeer e e r are also ono ona of ills his IT am kinds of money 1 icv I 1 1 now the little az r copper man decided wo we will W gro go home money I 1 I 1 have I 1 I 1 you Is anything that people in t general a g T r e e A can be exchanged I 1 T I 1 tor for anything s else of alue kalua 1 J I I 1 trust you w wilt I 1 it 1 prize rne ma lio io 1 1 7 1 much that yoa you I 1 0 r will kerp keep mo 11 7 t a awhile w h I 1 I 1 0 and itress IT fiese are arc the saxons 1 pray when you do pass me ino on to sonis some ono one else dont let me go eo to that ini miserly mrs airs smithers if 1 it Is kept moving there Is no danger of money being tight and people ale hard up this was a new view of the case to johnny wiio who had always supposed that the way to have money m ey was rr to hoard ho it I 1 I 1 almost before I 1 h chevas was aware of I 1 1 e it johnny johenk was I 1 t again sitting before I 1 the open I 1 fire at home and just under the I 1 I 1 blaze he noticed 1 1 14 a shining copper I 1 4 coin which he 1 still t calls the magic penny and keeps in a little litile 7 p I 1 basket on early virginia Virvin fa planters the and it if you want to offend johnny daugherty 11 very much just tell him that you think ho he dreame d the story that he Is eager to tell you about his travels with the little copper man |