Object: A cup or bag or something that a beggar might use for begging.

Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever seen a beggar? Do you know what a beggar looks like or what a beggar does? [Let them answer.] That’s right, he begs for money or food or clothing. Some of them do this because it is the only way that they can live. They may be hurt or sick or have something else wrong with them so they cannot work, so they must beg.

Have you ever thought of how the beggar must hold his cup or bag? Watch how I hold a begging cup. [Let them see it.] I hold it out and up so that people can put what they have into it easily. If I turned the cup upside down or put it behind my back they would have a hard time finding it and some of them would n…