64 THE DOLL AND HER FRIENDS,

and mama sometimes said he studied too hard ;
and they used to sit with him, and try to amuse
him by conversation, when they wished to draw
him from his books. Doctors visited him, and pre-
scribed many remedies; and his mama gave him all
the medicines herself, and took care that every order
was implicitly obeyed. His father carried him up
and down stairs, and’ waited upon him as tenderly
as even Margaret; but he grew no better with all
their care. He was always gentle and patient, but
he appeared in less good spirits than formerly. He
seemed to enjoy going out in his wheel-cha;; more
than any thing’; but one day he observed that the
summer was fast coming to an end, and that then
he must shut himself up in his room, for that he
minded the cold more than he used.

“I wish we lived ina warmer country,” said
Rose; “ perhaps then you might get better.”

“TI do not know about living,” replied Willy.
“ England is the best country to five in; but I cer-
tainly should like to be out of the way of the cold
for this next winter.” |

“ Why do not you tell Papa so?” asked Rose.

“ Because I know very well he would take me a
Journey directly, however inconvenient it might be
to him.”

Rose said nothing more Just then, but she: took