I confess to being rauoh disappointed afc the oontents of your latter 
which, came this morning, as I had expected to hear that yon were well on the road 
to recovery.But I am glad to hear that you are calling in the aid of a special¬ 
ist,and balieye that when he is through with you he will tell just what the 
troube with the digestive traot is.And that is more than half the battle.So at 
least it proved in my case and in that of other of my friends who have been 
driven finally to the specialist with hi3 stomach pump.This by the by is a very 
different affair to what it was even a few years ago, and is by no means as rapa^ 
sive as the name. 1- shall hope for better news from you soon. 
I have been having some trifling troubles of my own,inoluding a Maibonian 
abscess on the lid of the right eye.^his sounds more formidible than it really 
is sinoe it does not afieot the sight and gives no pain in its present condi¬ 
tion. It might easily be cut by the knife but the Doctor prefers not to toudjhit 
at present since when so removed it is likely to return. I have been havhtfg troub. 
le recently with focussing,and twicw have been unable to read at all for a half 
hour at a time;so I have an appointment with the Ooulist for next Tuesday as I 
do not think any of us old ohaps oan afford to take any liberties with either 
eyes or teeth.Always important they seem to me to increase in value with the 
lapse of years. 
ffe had a real snow storm this morning early which was quite unheralded by 
the prognostications man,and left us with two inches or so of snow on the ground, 
Then it cleared suddenly with a bright warm sun,and the consequence is I look 
out on a landscape almost free of snow., which would seem to indiotae a game of gj| 
