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96 HENRY'S BIRTHDAY.<br />

thickly-settled village, containing many factories,<br />

and employing<br />

sexes.<br />

a great number of persons of both<br />

There was one factory much larger than any<br />

of the rest, and to this Henry bent his course.<br />

His purpose was to give away his books and<br />

tracts to anybody that would receive them, make<br />

as short an excursion of it as possible, and go<br />

home again.<br />

At the principal entrance he was met by a<br />

well-dressed man, whom he afterward found was<br />

the overseer. The man spoke to him very po<br />

litely, but presently said to<br />

"<br />

him, Have you<br />

books to sell ? We are not in the habit of per<br />

mitting people<br />

to sell books in the factory."<br />

Henry colored a little ; but, recovering himself<br />

in a moment, he very honestly, but rather gra

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