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"Can I leave you alone while I go for the doctor, mamma?" he asked,
anxiously, as he held her clasped hands tightly in his two little ones.
His mother drew him towards her and kissed him.
"Take the boat,
dear," she said, "and fetch the doctor from the village. I shall be
patient till you return."
Little Boy Blue rushed away to the river
bank and unfastened the little boat; and then he pulled sturdily down the
river until he passed the bend and came to the pretty village below.
When he had found the doctor and told of his mother's misfortune, the good
man promised to help at once, and very soon they were seated in the boat
and on their way to the cottage.
It was very dark by this time, but
Little Boy Blue knew every turn and bend in the river, and the doctor
helped him pull at the oars, so that at last they came to the place where
a faint light twinkled through the cottage window. They found the
poor woman in much pain, but the doctor quickly set and bandaged her leg,
and gave her some medicine to ease her suffering. It was nearly
midnight when all was finished and the doctor was ready to start back to
the village.
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