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I dragged myself out and lit the fire, and then sat down disconsolate. 



" Mortimer, don't sit there and catch your death of cold. Come to bed." 



" As I was stepping in, she said : 



"But wait a moment. Please give the child some more of the medicine." 



Which I did. It was a medicine which made a child more or less lively ; so my 

 wife made use of its waking interval to strip it and grease it all over with the goose- 

 oil. I was soon asleep once more, but once more I had to get up. 



•* Mortimer, I feel a draft. I feel it distinctly. There is nothing so bad for this 

 disease as a draft. Please move the crib in front oT the fire." 



I did it; and collided with the rug again^ which I threw in the fire. Mrs. Mc 



Williams sprang 

 rescued i t and 

 words. I had 

 interval of sleep, 

 by request, and 

 a flax-seed poul- 

 placed upon the 

 and left there to 

 work. 



not a p e r m a- 

 got up every 

 and renewed 

 gave Mrs. M c 

 portunity to 

 of giving the 

 minutes, which 

 isfaction to her. 

 between times. 



out of bed and 

 we had some 

 another trifling 

 and then got up, 

 constructed 

 tice. This was 

 child's breast 

 do its healing 

 A wood fire is 

 nent thing. I 

 twenty minutes 

 ours, and this 

 Williams the op- 

 shorten the times 

 medicines by ten 

 was a great sat- 

 Now and then, 

 I reorganized the 



the flax-seed poultices, and applied sinapums and other sorts of blisters where 

 unoccupied places could be found upon the child. Well, toward morning the 

 wood gave out and my wife wanted me to go down cellar and get some more. 

 I said : 



" My dear, it is a laborious job, and the child must be nearly warm enough, with 



