Henry was a kind, good boy. His father was dead, and his mother was very poor. He had a little sister about 2 years old. He wanted to help his mother because she could not a earn enough money to buy food for his little family.
One day a man gave him a dollar for r the pocketbook which he had lost.Henry could have kept the pocketbook because no one saw him when he found it. But his mother had taught him to be h，and never to keep what did not belong to him. So he gave the pocketbook back to the man.
With the dollar he bought a box, three b,and some shoe polish(鞋油）.He then went to the c of the street, and said to everyone whose boots did not look n. “Polish your boots, please?”
He was so p that gentlemen soon began to notice him, and to let him polish their boots.The first day he c over 50 cents, which he gave to his mother to buy food with. When he gave her the money, she cried with joy and said, “You are a, good boy, Henry. I didn't know how I could earn enough to buy bread, but now I think we can m to get along quite well.”
Henry worked after school every day. He earned almost enough to support his mother and his little sister.
