ought up plenty of books from the school library, but lent Hugh some
valuable volumes of prints from his own shelves.

Hugh could not look at these for long together. His head soon began to
ache, and his eyes to be dazzled; for he was a good deal weakened. His
mother observed also that he became too eager about views in foreign
countries, and that he even grew impatient in his temper when talking
about them.

"My dear boy," said she one evening, after tea, when she saw him in this
state, and that it rather perplexed Mr Tooke, "if you remember your
resolution, I think you will put away that book."

"O, mother!" exclaimed he, "you want to take away the greatest pleasure
I have!"

"If it is a pleasure, go on. I was afraid it was becoming a pain."

Mr Tooke did not ask what this meant; but he evidently wished to know.
He soon knew, for Hugh found himself growing more fidgety and more
cross, the further he looked in the volume of Indian Views, till he
threw himself back upon the sofa, and stuffed his handkerchief into his
mouth, and stared at the fire, struggling, as his mother saw, to help
crying. "I will take away the book,--shall I, my dear?"

"Yes, mother. O dear! I shall never keep my vow, I know."

Mrs Proctor told Mr Tooke that Hugh had made a resolution which she
earnestly hoped he might be able to keep;--to bear cheerfully every
disappointment and trouble caused by this accident, from the greatest to
the least,--from being obliged to give up being a traveller by-and-by,
to the shoemaker's wondering that he wanted only one shoe. Now, if
looking at pictures of foreign countries made him less cheerful, it
seemed to belong to his resolution to give up that pleasure for the
present. Hugh acknowledged that it did; and Mr Tooke, who was pleased
at what he heard, carried away the Indian Views, and brought instead a
very fine work on Trades, full of plates representing people engaged in
every kind of trade and manufacture. Hugh was too tired to turn over
any more pages to-night: but his master said the book might stay in the
room now, and when Hugh was removed, it might go with him; and, as he
was able to sit up more, he might like to copy some of the plates.

"Removed!" exclaimed Hugh.

His mother smiled, and told him that he was going on so well that he
might soon now be removed to his uncle's.

"Where," said Mr Tooke, "you will have more quiet and more liberty than
you can have here. Your brother, and