CONVALESCENCE. 
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tracing these pages, how reluctantly the system renews 
its energies under the pressure of a daily unvarying 
task. 
The patients at our sick-station no doubt suffered 
much, and for a while I never parted from them with¬ 
out anxiety. But their health improved under the 
stimulus of a new mode of life; and by the time that 
we called on them to rejoin us their whole tone had 
undergone a happy change. I congratulate myself, as 
I write, that all who reached the open water with me 
are able now to bear a part in society and toil. 
THE STOVE AT ANOATOK. 
