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set out ; so that, on the whole, I am pretty well
satisfied."
At his father's special request, he gave a short
history of his day's labor.
He told about writing
the two letters — about giving away a book to
Samuel and another to the Sabbath-school library
— and about giving out the tracts. When he
came to tell how the workmen at the factory
tried to make fun of him, Mr. Williams, who
seldom more than smiled, — so seldom that many
people had said they believed he did not know
how to laugh heartily,— burst into quite a loud
laugh, and could hardly restrain himself.
Here Henry was embarrassed, and was almost
ready to regard himself as in fault about it.
father attempted
His
to apologize, and to say that he
was not laughing at anything which was out of
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