id="Page_84" class="x-ebookmaker-pageno" title="[Pg 84]"/> Dick, with the bag of gold. The man and the girl were both glad to find that Jack had sold what they gave him, and that he had got a good deal for them. But when Jack told them of the cat, and took out the bag of gold, they did not know what to say. And when poor Dick was told that it was all for him, he had to cry for joy, and all the rest wept with him, for they were all fond of Dick now, he had come to be such a good boy.

“Well, Dick,” said Jack, “what will you do with all this gold? Let us see what will be best.” So they all said much, and sat up till it was late, to talk of Dick and his pile of gold.

At last Dick said, “I will give some of it to each of you, who have been so good and kind to me. I will take part of the rest and lay it out upon my mind, that I may be wise when I grow to be a man. And what is left I will lay up, so that when I am a man, I will have it to work with, that I may grow to be rich; for to be good, and wise, and rich, is what I wish.”

They all said Dick knew what was best. So that is what was done with the pile of gold that the king gave for the cat.