See a penny pick it up.
All the day you’ll have good luck.
I don’t really believe that old superstition.
And yet, whenever I see a penny on the ground, I pick it up and recite the rhyme. It is just what I do.
I don’t really believe picking up pennies will bring me luck.
And yet, last week, while taking Lucy for a walk, I found a penny and picked it up. A littler further on, I found another penny and a dime. I picked those up, too. If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, what is 12¢ worth, I wondered.Did I now have 12 times the luck I’d left the house with?
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