THE MEMBRANOUS CROUP, 



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"None in the wide world. O, what is to become of us I " 



By and by a nurse brought in our Penelope to say good-night and offer the 

 customary prayer at the mother's knee. In the midst of " Now I lay me down to 

 sleep," she gave a slight cough! My wife fell back like one stricken with death. 

 But the next moment she was up and brimming with the activities which terror 

 inspires. 



She commanded that the child's crib be removed from the nursery to our 

 bed-room ; and she went along to see the order executed. She took me with her, 

 of course. We got matters arranged with speed. A cot bed was put up in my 



wife's dressing 

 nurse. But now 

 liams said we 

 away from the 

 what \ihe were to 

 toms in the 

 blanched again, 



We then re- 

 atid the nurse 

 and put v^ a. 

 in a room ad- 



P r esently, 

 M c W i 1 1 i a m s 

 baby should 

 nelope ? This 

 a new panic to 

 the tribe of us 

 crib out of the 

 fast enough t o 



room for the 

 Mrs. McWil- 

 wefe too far 

 other baby, and 

 have the symp- 

 night — and she 

 poor thing, 

 stored the crib 

 to the nursery 

 bed for ourselves 

 joining. 



however, Mrs. 

 said suppose the 

 catch it from Pe- 

 thought struck 

 her heart, and 

 could not get the 

 nursery again 

 satisfy my wife. 



though she assisted in her own person and well nigh pulled the crib to pieces in her 

 frantic hurry. 



We moved down stairs; but there was no place there to stow the nurse, and Mrs. 

 McV/illiams said the nurse's experience would be an inestimable help. So we 



