. Spectacles for young eyes : Boston. joyed your visit to the Athe-naeum ? he asked, as I entered, with the sameroguish smile on his happy face. * Yes! You cant tell how much I enjoyedit, I said. *• Cant I, though! I have been shut up solong, that I can understand your delight. I amgoing out to walk to-morrow, and I tliink, if Iam well enough, I shall go to the beach whenyou go home, and spend the summer. The Doc-tor has been here, and he says that notiiing isneeded but sea-bathing to strengthen me, andthen I shall be as well as the rest of you. I was afraid he was too hopeful. But whenthe nex
. Spectacles for young eyes : Boston. joyed your visit to the Athe-naeum ? he asked, as I entered, with the sameroguish smile on his happy face. * Yes! You cant tell how much I enjoyedit, I said. *• Cant I, though! I have been shut up solong, that I can understand your delight. I amgoing out to walk to-morrow, and I tliink, if Iam well enough, I shall go to the beach whenyou go home, and spend the summer. The Doc-tor has been here, and he says that notiiing isneeded but sea-bathing to strengthen me, andthen I shall be as well as the rest of you. I was afraid he was too hopeful. But whenthe next week came, and we went together tothe Haymarket Square Station, I was glad to seehow strong and well he appeared. I only went RAILROAD STATION. 195 home for a short visit, and Mrs. Hamilton wentto the cars with Jeanie in the carriage, to see usset off. My trunk had been sent to the Eastern Rail-road Station ; but Georgy preferred the otherroute, and two men brought the trunk across thestreet for me. I expected Mrs. Hamilton would. smile, and whisper Old School, if she saw mycountrified way of carrying baggage, but she wastoo much moved at parting with her pet to thinkof me, except to say Good by kindly, and tosee that we had a comfortable seat to ourselves. Our journey home was like our journey to Bos-ton, varied only by the beautiful scenery on thisroute. Now, Georgy is well enough to walk to the 196 SPECTACLES. shore, and to sit on the rocks and sketch. Thesun is so hot that he has a large umbrella fas-tened to a pole that he fixes in the sand, and heis never ^.appier than when he watches the mack-erel schooners come in. One day we saw amirage, and the distant houses — far off, en apoint where the lightliouse stands — were allinverted, lighthouse and all! They were so faroff, we had sometimes doubted tlieir being thereat all. But they loomed up now, like whitesails in the distance. On another day we sawa rainbow, that came down and touched thegrass hi our field; you c
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