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GIVING AWAY TRACTS. 99<br />
no objection, he should like to pass through the<br />
factory himself.<br />
The overseer said there was not the slightest<br />
objection<br />
to his doing so.<br />
But Henry, who was entirely unused<br />
to such<br />
places, and may therefore have gazed, as he passed<br />
along, more than those who were familiar with<br />
such scenes and places, was now to pass an ordeal<br />
for which he was not exactly prepared. Seeing<br />
what they called "a raw boy" coming along,<br />
they undertook to crack their jokes upon him.<br />
Henry was good-natured, but not remarkable for<br />
mirthfulness ; and as to jokes he did not even<br />
seem to understand them. When, therefore, one<br />
of the men asked him if he had razors to sell, he<br />
only answered in an honest way, told them what<br />
his errand was, and gave them some of his tracts.
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