Children always appreciate small gifts of money.

Mum or dad, of course, provide a regular supply of pocket money, but uncles and aunts are always a source of extra income.

With some children, small sums go a long way.

If fifty Yuan notes are not exchanged for sweets, they rattle for months inside money boxes.

Only very thrifty children manage to fill up a money box.

For most of them, fifty Yuan is a small price to pay for a nice big bar of chocolate.

My sister, XiaoYu, has a money box but it is always empty.

Very few of the fifty Yuan notes I have given her have found their way there.

I gave her fifty Yuan yesterday and advised her to save it. Instead, she bought herself fifty Yuan worth of trouble.

On her way to the sweet shop, she dropped the fifty Yuan note, and it fluttered along the pavement before disappearing down a drain.

XiaoYu took off her coat, rolled up her sleeves, and pushed her right arm through the drain cover.

She could not find the fifty Yuan note anywhere, and what’s more, she could not get her arm out.

A crowd of people gathered around her and a lady rubbed her arm with soap and butter, but XiaoYu was firmly stuck.

The fire brigade was called and two firefighters freed XiaoYu using a special type of grease.

XiaoYu was not too upset by her experience because the lady who owns the sweet shop heard about her troubles and rewarded her with a large box of chocolates.