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108 HENKY'S BIRTHDAY.<br />
of such a soil as was most favorable to early and<br />
rapid development. Late in the season as it<br />
now was, many of his flowers were in their very<br />
prime — as beautiful as they could well be.<br />
He had scarcely returned from the factory be<br />
fore he was gathering a bouquet of flowers. His<br />
mother came into the<br />
"<br />
garden : Why, Henry,"<br />
" are you not fatigued "<br />
?<br />
said she,<br />
" Not at all," was his reply.<br />
" I should think," said she,<br />
" that by this<br />
time you must be completely tired out. You<br />
have seemed to be upon the run all day long.<br />
May I ask what you are doing now ? "<br />
(You will see, by these remarks of Mrs. Wil<br />
liams's, that Henry was of an ardent tempera<br />
ment, and may perhaps think that he<br />
sometimes<br />
did things hastily, and without due consideration.)
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