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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