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70 HENRY'S BIRTHDAY.<br />
this I am doing whenever I encourage them to<br />
do good ; for Henry Williams not only enjoyed<br />
his sports like other boys, but here was a new<br />
source of enjoyment that many children of both<br />
sexes know nothing about.<br />
Besides, the amusement which children feel<br />
in doing good is apt to be durable. When<br />
boys have done skating, or coasting, or playing<br />
ball, there is an end of it for the time : no, not<br />
quite that, for the sled that is at the bottom<br />
of the hill is to be drawn up, and dragged<br />
home again, and sometimes with aching limbs<br />
and weary arms.<br />
But the pleasure Henry felt when he had<br />
given the potatoes into Mrs. Fenton's hands<br />
was not the end of it. He enjoyed it all the<br />
way home ; and this was one reason why he
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