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`` But , '' said Jem , `` I would work every day , and all day long . '' `` Then , '' said the lady , `` I will give you work . Come here , to-morrow morning , and my gardener will set you to weed the shrubberies , and I will pay you sixpence a day . Remember , you must be at the gates by six o'clock . '' Jem bowed , thanked her , and went away . It was late in the evening , and Jem was impatient to get home to feed Lightfoot ; yet he recollected that he had promised the man who had trusted him to sell the fossils , that he would bring him half of what he got for them ; so he thought that he had better go to him directly ; and away he went , running along by the waterside about a quarter of a mile , till he came to the man 's house . He was just come home from work , and was surprised when Jem showed him the half-crown , saying , `` Look what I got for the stones ; you are to have half , you know . ''