his medicine and holding the drink to his feverish soothing bim in short all the devices tion and fighting against this most malady for four days die doctor a man felt justified in affording them hope but on the fifth their clear was the e our of the doctor shook his head recovery it is true if the child s physical strength were greater m ht be possible but in this case he feared for the result still he would not absolutely give him up though at the same time he considered it his duty to bid them at all events to hold themselves prepared for the worst language could not describe the sorrow and despair that settled upon the whole family when they heard this opinion of his medical attendant the fact of the other children having been so slightly prevented his parents who had never seen the complaint before from entertaining any serious apprehensions of on the contrary they imagined let no one this for it it tub parents trial that as in tbe cases it would come to a crisis then and in the course of a few days altogether disappear � leaving their guarded treasure it is true and helpless for a time but still with a constitution not seriously injured by hid nay they not without some hopes � and how were these hopes � that it might be possible for the child s intellect to be developed by that change in the brain which sometimes results from violent and temporary disease in such a manner as to restore reason after its exercise had been even for a considerable time suspended after two days more it was quite dear that the doctor entertained no hope of him and terrible did this heart breaking announcement come upon them all not that they absolutely of him for truly may it be � as it was felt in instance that love wiu hope when the very quiver of death is trembling in the heart of those it loves nothing however which we can write can give the reader such a dear and affecting account of this innocent death bed as the short journal written at his bed side by his mother of his sufferings and of the affliction into which the certainty that he was to be taken away for ever plunged them all this affecting record of the innocent s last moments commenced on the very day the doctor told them to be prepared for the worst just forty eight hours before his death it is an one and the of the details will be easily overlooked by those who have lost or who fear to lose any child that is dear to them as the ruddy drops that their hearts april ten o clock a m� � the doctor has this day forbidden us to hope but we know that god of his infinite mercy can restore our innocent child if it seem good to him i have since the appearance of the complaint among us heard of children recovering r a more malignant attack and more symptoms than his but lest it should be the a record of tub or will of the almighty to remove bim i am resolved to mark down a register of our darling s pains and sufferings and of everything connected with him that when he is gone we bring him back to our memory during the most affecting period of his brief but happy life may god support me and sustain us all but surely when we feel that he is about to be withdrawn from us this grief is natural the doctor says the worst symptom about the dear one is the heavy feverish look that is in his eyes heavy indeed is the look of my beloved and loaded with sickness yet has he moments when he wishes to talk with his brother and to have him about him his eldest sister to whom he is so much attached is now that she has heard the doctor s opinion weeping bitterly in her own room kissing his little coat and pressing every part of his dress to her heart she told that his brother was going to die and asked him whilst she sobbed aloud what would he do after his little the innocent child replied that he would not let him die alas my darling she returned i fear that in spite of papa and mamma and all death will take him � but i will kill death said the manly little child his sister kissed him but only wept the more twelve o clock � is awake and seems a little easier he is now arranging his little play things about his pillow and has two small tops one his own and the other s which he made a present of to him yesterday there is also his whip three ence and a little thin bottle in which his brother put some that he might be able to see their colours through the glass � a sight in which he takes great delight there the beloved child lies arranging as well as he can whilst ever and anon his heavy eye turns round to see that am with him he then calls mamma and when ask him what he wants he looks at me and smiles feebly saying do not leave me rub l � oh how will my heart part with him how can i give liim up am i not his mother i � sustain me o god two o clock p m � his has come to his bed side and he seems pleased to see him he has given him his little top saying keep my top sure you wouldn t die and leave me said the innocent child no he replied but he knew not what either the question or answer means oh this is too much for my heart 