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94 HENRY'S BIRTHDAY.
Henry had not thought of this.
"But," added she, "if you are going hut a
little way with them you may perhaps be able
to carry them. The weight, as you distribute
them, will be constantly diminishing."
Henry's plan was to distribute them in a
factory village a mile and a half distant. He
told his mother so, and that, upon second thought,
he believed the whole would make altogether
large a bundle.
too
There were eighteen, instead of
fifteen, of the little books ; and not less than
fifty of the tracts.
They would make a package
almost a foot square, and half as thick ;
than an old-fashioned
quarto family Bible.
or larger
Mrs. Williams, finding Henry a little at a loss,
said,
" Now I wish, Henry, to have you distinctly
understand that you are entirely welcome to as