book2

68 HENBY'S BIRTHDAY.
Henry bade her good morning, and was soon
at home again. He went back with a lighter
heart, and a lighter step too, than he came.
However, he had time, as he went along, to
think of the necessities of the poor.
u What a strange thing it is,"
he said to him
"
self, to have nothing to eat but a little salted
meat! And if Mrs. Fenton is so poor, how
many other people there may be in the same
"
condition, or in a condition still worse !
Henry had been out in the field coasting, or
on the green playing ball, or he had been at the
pond to skate, I know not how many times in
his whole life ; and he had taken pleasure in
it,
too, as much as other boys. All boys love
play, and Henry was, in this particular, like
other boys
:but, as
I
said before in relation to