I6O REMINISCENCES. 



and tender care. But it is, I repeat, a principal feature of 

 his life, that for nearly forty years he never knew one day of 

 the health of ordinary men, and that thus his life was one 

 long struggle against the weariness and strain of sickness. 

 And this cannot be told without speaking of the one condition 

 which enabled him to bear the strain and fight out the 

 struggle to the end. 



