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"I promise," replied Emil. After dinner Emil's mother took a tin box from a shelf in the sitting room, and counted out some money. "here is seventy pounds: five ten-pound notes and four five-pound notes.Give your grandmother sixty pounds. and tell her that I couldn't send it before because it took
a long time to save. the other ten pounds is for you, and it'll pay for your return journey . That will cost about three pounds. Use the rest to pay for what you eat and drink when you go out. I'll put the money into this little bag Don't lose it! where will you put it?" Emil thought for a minute, then he put the bag into the pocket . his coat. ''It'll be safe there, " he said. Don't tell anyone on the train that you are carrying so much money. " Of course not!" some people think that seventy pounds ia a very small amount of money, but to Emil and his mother it was a great deal. Emil's father was dead, so his mother worked ha rd all day to pay for their food and clothes, and for her son's books and his school. Emil did his best in class, not because he liked his lessons, but because his mother was pleased when he got a good report from his teacher at the end of the year. "It's time to go to the station, " said Mrs fisher. " you mustn't miss your train. if the bus come along, we'll take it." The country bus was a very strange-looking thing. It was very old and not at all fast. Emil and his friends wanted proper new buses, but the people in Newton, the little country place wher he lived, were quite pleased with their bus. When the driver came to the house of anyone who was on the bus, that person called out and the driver stopped. If anyone was in a great hurry, he walked ! The bus came, and Emil and his mother got in . They had just reached the station square, and were getting out of the bus when a deep voice behind them said: "Where are you going?" It was the chief policeman of the little town. Emil's mother said: "My son is going to visit his grandmother for two or three weeks . " Emil felt very foolish. He was remembering something. In the center of the station square there stood the stone statue of a very famous judge. The week before, when the boys came out of class, they climbed up and put an old cap on the judge's head, and Emil painted the nose red. But while he was painting it, the chief policeman appeared on the other side of the square. The boys all ran away, but they were afraid that he had seen who they were. "Now, "thought Emil, " the policeman will say: Emil Fisher, you must come to prison. The policeman said nothing, but but Emil was not very happy as he carried his case inside the station . perhaps the policeman was waiting till he return? Mrs Fisher bought a ticket for Emil. They had only a few minutes to wait . "Don't leave anything behind in the train. And don't sit but when you ask, say 'please'" I can lift the case my self. I'm not a baby. " All right. You must get out at the right station in the city. It's the East Station, not the west Station,. Your grandmother will be waiting for you be the ticket office. "I'll find her, Mother." Don't throw the paper on the floor of the carriage after you've eaten your food. And don't lose the money." Emil opened his coat and felt in his pocket. He said: ''It's safe." At last the slow train came into the station. Emil Kissed his mother and climbed into a carriage with his case. His mother gave him the flowers and the food and asked if he had found a seat. He had. " Be good, and write to me." And you write to me." And be nice to Polly. Perhaps you won't remember each other." The carriage doors were shut, and the train moved slowly out of the station. Mrs Fisher waved her hand for a long time . Then she turned round and went home . she wept a little. But she did not weep for long: she had her work to do.
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