However, Monty was not being very careful, and he got involved in more and more risky deals. The way he was going, he would end up almost a rich man.
He had accumulated a lot of money for little effort. Monty was a clever boy, and he decided to start managing his money by exchanging it: buying and selling things, or betting it with other children, in card games. They joined Ruben and Nico in spending whatever they had, as soon as possible, on sweets. They made Clara and Joe so angry that these two could no longer stand to keep saving their money. Every time, they would show off their sweets in front of the other children, laughing and making fun of their cousins. Some of the children thought that they would save their money, but Ruben and Nico, the two smallest kids, paid no attention, and they continued spending it all on sweets. So they proposed a special test, in which the children would have to show, over the course of a year, just what they could manage to get with those few coins.
The grandparents, aunts, uncles, and parents commented that, behaving like this, the children would never learn to manage their money.
They would always wait excitedly for the moment their grandfather would give them a few coins, "so you can buy yourself something." Then all the children would run off to buy chewing gum, lollies, or wine gums. Every month, Julia and her cousins would go for the big family meal at their grandparents' house.
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