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themselves of their garments, they could see no 

 appearance of the disease. Nothing scruffy had 

 come out, as yet, but the cold which my father felt 

 after getting into bed was enough to check its 

 coming out, and to throw it into the system. 

 Knowing the danger of this, he took immediate 

 steps to obviate it. The clothes were only sufficiently 

 wide to cover the bed when empty, and having my 

 father's big frame beneath them they drooped over 

 him as a cloth over a table, leaving a wide opening 

 or interregnum which admitted the draught from 

 ill-fitting casements, door, and floor. He therefore 

 got out of bed and collected garments enough to 

 secure one side of him, and tucked in the bedclothes 

 tightly on the other. But alas ! his troubles did not 

 end here. There was to be no rest for him that 

 night. The house was divided by wooden partitions, 

 every sound in the adjoining room was audible in 

 his, and the snoring in one of the compartments 

 made his bed vibrate. And early in the morning, 

 just as he was dropping off to sleep, voices in the 

 next room roused him. It seemed that a family 

 conclave was being held to arrange about the day's 

 luncheon, dinner, etc., for he heard the words, 

 *' Look, see here, 'ow be us going to order ? " and 

 then the voice of the old man calling to his grand- 

 daughter, " Rabecca, Rabecca, my dear, 'tes tiame 

 to riise." And shortly after — the first call not 



