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GIVING AWAY A BOOK. 49
the order of his series. He had thought the
matter over again and again, and had sometimes
almost made up his mind to give it away to
Samuel, a boy who had a great fondness for
reading, but was utterly destitute of books.
It was number five in his library, and was an
excellent book ; but he had rather outgrown it.
Samuel had seen
it,
and partly read
it,
and was
greatly delighted with it; but Henry had not
chosen to lend
it
to him lest
it
should be in
jured by the carelessness of his brothers and
sisters.
He was indeed
a
little tried, and he mentioned
his trials to his mother. Her first thought was
to encourage him
to fill the vacancy
to give
by
not tell him so, because
it
away, by promising
another book ;but she did
it
was highly desirable
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