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48 HENBY'S BIRTHDAY.<br />
CHAPTER IX.<br />
GIVING AWAY A BOOK.<br />
Henby had finished his two letters, and put<br />
them in the office. It was just nine o'clock.<br />
The morning was passing away, and the work<br />
which he had assigned himself was not yet<br />
done ; indeed, he felt as if he had hardly began<br />
it.<br />
Doing good makes time pass swiftly, no less<br />
than pleasantly.<br />
He had, with the<br />
aid of his father and other<br />
friends, collected, from time to time, quite a little<br />
library. The books were all numbered 1, 2, 3,<br />
&c, in the best order.<br />
Among them, however,<br />
was one that he could spare, only it would break