408 PROGRESS OF HIS DISEASE. CHAP. xxin. 



to find the great change that disease had made in his 

 appearance ; and he insisted upon Dr. Mill being sent 

 for. As for the expense, he would cheerfully pay the 

 doctor's bill. Dick expostulated, but it was of no use. 

 The doctor was sent for. He put Dick under a course 

 of treatment for the purpose of reducing the swelling in 

 his limbs. Writing to his brother-in-law on the subject, 

 he said : " A good deal depends on the way in which we 

 take these things. I keep up my heart, and struggle 

 bravely against all my troubles." 



When the doctor urged him to give up work and 

 engage a journeyman, he said: "All buff! my only 

 chance is to continue at my daily work." He therefore 

 continued at his work, although his legs were fit to 

 burst. Indeed, they did burst. But he still kept at his 

 work. About a fortnight before his death, his brother- 

 in-law, knowing the hard straits to which he was reduced, 

 offered to send him some money. Dick answered : " I 

 am no better. The swelling is steadily moving upward. 

 You offer to send me a present ? No, no ! But I will 

 take a present from you of a pair of spectacles. My 

 present ones are too weak." His friend, nevertheless, 

 sent him four sovereigns and a pair of spectacles. 



He was scarcely able to write when he received his 

 brother's kindly gift. But he did write, with a very 

 straggling restless hand. He was now in bed, and never 

 got up again. He said : " Your kind favour of 4 came 

 duly, and not the spectacles as I had expected, for which 

 I return you many thousand thanks. I am no better. 

 My legs are running water, and very disagreeable." In 



