Buying Candy

Three little boys went into a candy store. " I want two cents worth of jelly
beans," the first boy said to the clerk. The clerk frowned. The jelly beans were
on the top self, and he didn't like climbing up there just to sell two cents
worth. But he did it. When he came down, he put away his ladder and turned to
the second boy.


"What will you have?" he asked.


"I'll have two cents worth of jelly beans, too," said the boy. Angrily, the
clerk got the ladder and climbed up to get the jelly beans. While he was still
up there, he turned to the third boy.


"You don't want two cents worth of jelly beans, do you?" asked the man.


"No, sir," answered the third boy. So the man climbed down and put away the
ladder.


"Now, what do you want?" the clerk asked the boy.


"A nickel worth of the jelly beans," replied the lad.