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62 HENRY'S BIRTHDAY.
had heard and remembered the conversation, and
Henry had been a good deal affected by it.
was on this account that he had thought of the
poor woman on his birthday.
Although he had raised the potatoes, and
called them his, he had taken the precaution,
was perfectly proper, to speak to his father about
it,
and get his permission. The father was ex
ceedingly glad when he made the proposal, and
encouraged the plan.
It was more than ten o'clock in the forenoon
already
;and when Henry told his mother what
he was going to do, she reminded
Fenton would be contriving
children by this
time, and
if
a
It
as
him that Mrs.
dinner for her
he meant to give
her an opportunity to use the vegetables that day,
he must make more haste, or he would be too late.