Do not go out side without your warm coat, Tom; it is very cold, and the snow lies thick on the ground. If you do, then you will catch cold, and then poor Tom will be ill."
"But I feel quite warm."
"Yes, you do now; but see what a large fire there is here , out of doors there is no fire, and the cold wind blows; and if you have no warm coat on, you will feel cold."
But Tom thought he knew best, so he went outside with no coat on, and he caught a bad cold and cough. He was put to bed quite ill. Now Jack and Will and Tom were supposed to play on the frozen pond the next day, but Tom was too ill to go. When he was in bed, Tom thought how silly he had been, and then he said to himself, he would try and do all that he was told when he got well.