Earning Coins to Buy My Freedom

"I felt it was time for me to think of a way by which I might start to earn coins to buy my freedom. Why not bake more of the honey cakes and peddle them to hungry men upon the streets of the city?" "If I can use my afternoons after the baking is finished to earn for the coins, would it be only fair for thee to share my earnings with me that I might have money of my own?", he asked his master. "'Here is what we will do,' he suggested. Thou sellest them at two for a penny, then half of the pennies will be mine to pay for the flower and the honey and the wood to bake them