To have grannie comfortable will be better than to look out of the window ever so much." He drew in his head, came down the ladder with a rush, and hurried off to school.
At supper he laid his scheme before his father and mother.
They looked very much pleased with their boy.

But his father said at once-- "No, no, Willie.

It won't do.

I'm glad you've been the first to think of something--only, unfortunately, your plan won't work.

You can't sleep there." "I'll engage to sleep wherever there's room to lie down; and if there isn't I'll engage to sleep sitting or standing," said Willie, whose mother had often said she wished she could sleep like Willie.