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children were received with enthusiasm on their return to New 

 York, and were asked "many questions about the great man 

 who had taken such care of them." 



A letter dated from that time (January 14, 1886) shows that 

 Pasteur yet found time for kindness, in the midst of his world- 

 famed occupations. 



" My dear Jupille, I have received your letters, and I am 

 much pleased with the news you give me of your health. Mme. 

 Pasteur thanks you for remembering her. She, and every one 

 at the laboratory, join with me in wishing that you may keep 

 well and improve as much as possible in reading, writing and 

 arithmetic. Your writing is already much better than it was, 

 but you should take some pains with your spelling. Where do 

 you go to school ? Who teaches you ? Do you work at home 

 as much as you might? You know that Joseph Meister, who 

 was first to be vaccinated, often writes to me ; well, I think he 

 is improving more quickly than you are, though he is only ten 

 years old. So, mind you take pains, do not waste your time 

 with other boys, and listen to the advice of your teachers, and 

 of your father and mother. Eemember me to M. Perrot, the 

 Mayor of Villers-Farlay. Perhaps, without him, you would 

 have become ill, and to be ill of hydrophobia means inevitable 

 death ; therefore you owe him much gratitude. Good-bye. 

 Keep well." 



Pasteur's solicitude did not confine itself to his two first 

 patients, Joseph Meister and the fearless Jupille, but was 

 extended to all those who had come under his care ; his kind- 

 ness was like a living flame. The very little ones who then 

 only saw in him a "kind gentleman' bending over them 

 understood later in life, when recalling the sweet smile lighting 

 up his serious face, that Science, thus understood, unites moral 

 with intellectual grandeur. 



Good, like evil, is infectious; Pasteur's science and devotion 

 inspired an act of generosity which was to be followed by many 

 others. He received a visit from one of his colleagues at the 

 Academie Francaise, Edouard Herve, who looked upon journal- 

 ism as a great responsibility and as a school of mutual re- 

 spect between adversaries. He was bringing to Pasteur, from 

 the Comte de Laubespin, a generous philanthropist, a sum of 

 40,000 fr. destined to meet the expenses necessitated by the 

 organization of the hydrophobia treatment. Pasteur, when 



