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116 HENRY'S BIRTHDAY.<br />
conversation with his father after dinner had<br />
rather discouraged him about giving people<br />
money.<br />
But before<br />
I go farther it will be desirable, for<br />
the sake of a part of my readers who may be<br />
ignorant on this subject, to say who Jemmy<br />
Stubbins was.<br />
You have heard of Elihu Burritt, the learned<br />
blacksmith ;<br />
the man, in other words, who, while<br />
working at his trade as a blacksmith in Worces<br />
ter, in Massachusetts, and elsewhere, contrived<br />
to find time to become acquainted — and this, too,<br />
before he was thirty-five years ofage — with almost<br />
fifty languages.<br />
Well, this Mr. Burritt went over<br />
to Europe some eight or nine years ago with the<br />
intention of walking about the country, and<br />
finding out the condition of the poor. He was,
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