THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY;

56, PATERNOSTER ROW; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD;
AND 164, PICCADILLY.

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HARRY BLAKE'S TROUBLE.

CHAPTER 1.

"When we cannot see our way,
Let us trust and still obey;
He who bids us forward go
Cannot fail the way to show."

T wanted but a few days to Christ-
The snow lay thick upon

mas.

the ground; and old Isaac Blake, the carrier, had to lead his horse down the steep hill which formed the entrance to the little town of Fordbridge. He had more parcels than usual, and the tilted cart was quite full. There was the Christmas hamper, from a well-to-do son in London to his old parents at the mill; a huge