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the carpet. Everybody who came to the house noticed the kindness of Boosy to the child, and he got buckshish^[1] from many people for his goodness to Henry.

When Henry was two years old, he had a dreadful illness: so alarming indeed was it, that for many days it was thought he would die. He had another very severe illness when he was four years old, for he was never a very healthy child. During the height of these sicknesses,

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