CHAPTER XXVI. 



CONTINUATION OF COLD— FRIENDS IN CONSULTATION — 

 TRYING A REMEDY. 



O. I cannot get rid of my cold. I seem to my- 

 self to have such a cold as nobody ever had 

 before, or since, the Deluge, till now. 



I select the Deluge as the era of the introduc- 

 tion of colds and chills. 



Happy Thought. — Good notion for a new subject for 

 Bishop Colenso. By the way, how startling the first sneeze 

 must have been. Wonder what the sneezer himself thought 

 of it. If Dr. Colenso could get a scientific physician to col- 

 laborate on History of Cold from its Origin up to the Present 

 Tinie^ they'd get on wonderfully, when they both, so to speak, 

 warmed to the work. 



It is a comfort to an invalid when he finds his friends 

 attentive. 



Boodells is already here. He tells me how bad he himself 

 has been for years ; how much worse than myself he is at 

 this present moment. This he calls " cheering me up." I 

 call it irritating to the last degree. In effect he seems to be 



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