No, the way I understand it is this--he left two friends a couple shillings so they could buy something they liked. Let' say JB left his friend 5 shillings. His friend (let's call him Bill) wants a new pocketknife. He would take those 5 shillings and buy the knife. Then everytime Bill looked at that kinfe he would think of his friend John Budd. I thought it was ver