24 Katie Summers.

“T shouldn’t like that,” said Katie; “it must
be dreadful to be so very hot.”

«There are other places not so hot as India
where they have more fine weather than we have
in England; but even there the people suffer from
the heat during the summer, and those who are
not born there get idle and weak from it.”

They soon arrived at the little town of Hamley.
The chaise was stopped at the door of a toy
shop, and the children went in to make their
purchases. The hat and shoes were chosen and
paid for, and the needle-book, too, but Katie
couldn’t get the things she wanted for her doll’s
house, so they left the shop, and were going to
ask their papa to take them to the other toy
shop, when they saw a poor woman they knew
standing talking to their papa.

“He's about as bad as he can be, sir,” they
heard her say. “The doctor says he can’t live
many days now; and indeed I can hardly wish
it, dreadful as it is to part with my darling; for