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CHAPTER XXV,--(Cont'd.)
Kit had never eat in an examina-
tion ball before, and the rustling of
so much printed paper, and the
scratching of so many pone all moving
rapidly forward, foundered him for
little. But soon the wits came back
to him, and he remembered the class-]
teal master's advice ---the easy gums -
tions first, and keep cool,
Ilap pily It was the Latin paper,
and Kit ran his eye over the prose
version for translation with a wonder-,
fel feeling of security, which began:
at his feet and spread tinglingly up-,
wards, It was a 'passage fro Mac-
aulay's third chapter, one of his fav-'
orite pieces, and one which he had;
more than once turned into Latin
With the "Orra Man." The excellence
o£ the translation which Kit sent in
Was quite hid from himself. Ile did
net even know that all the others were
leaving their versions to the last. It
seemed to him that he was working
very slowly,
Neither did he know that the exam -1
iner chosen by the Society was an old
pupil of Meevin's (prince of Latinists)
at Aberdeen Grammar School, If he
had, he would have taken even more
pains with the version --and perhaps
,polled It,
The translations into English prov-
ed the merest child's play, and Kit
wrote thein oft' almost without
thought. Indeed, the whole paper was
answered so rapidly, and without a
word wasted, that Kit was first done,
and presently found himself with a
beating heart watching the flying
pens of the ten covering ream after
team of foolscap, It seemed to him' iner from following the reasoning very'
that he must have missed out some- closely.,I
tbdng essential. So he went carefully; Buit was upon the afternoon of
over all his answers, recalling what the second day that the phalanx of
the "Orra Man" had told him, and
putting down that and no more. eleventhetered their Flodden field
Then came luncheon and an ad -1 Hithertoto they had struggled an, no
journment, the youths rising pale and • one of them acknowledging that he be
anxious at the call of their time- Rob Grier, who declared that x thppe'
keeper, some even halting to alter! ester loon free Balmaelellan" was
some doubtful point even on the way, the winner. "And it's richt eneuch
to the table; and then, after all was that the likes o' him should get it. For
fixed, rehearsing in their minds some I can gang back and whack het airn
other method by which they could have in the smiddy at Girlies; and this hal;
answered or evaded a question andjtyke here can cut turmuts and clip;
d bl
way do ye pranaunce your words, that
ye can afeeml to throw stanes at ither
folk?"
Jock Mac Walter wished he had his
mother to answer :for him, but mare.
aged to falter that "at ony rate that
wasna the richt way."
".Man," said Girlies, "I wish Bair
we had you doon about whaur I cone
frac, 'There's a smiddy there that I
work le whiles. Man, I could pit a
pair a fine cuddy meters s on ye (iron
shoes) that wad fit ye to a hair. And
then eo could gang your ways up to
tho college o' Edinburgh and stand In
the muekle 'yett,' and tell a' the pro-
fessOrs heo to pronounce the 'Alien.""Come to dinner now, announced the.
voice of. the Secretary froni the clear-
way; "we will take the mathematical
paper in the afternoon."
And Kit felt a tremor like incipient
rigor run through all his limbs. Hero,
if anywhere, he would disgrace him-
self,
It was not to be so, however, for'
the old Melvin's pupil, perhaps eon-,
stems that he was not equal to mod-
ern reasonings and deductions, had
confined himself mainly to the plain
letter of Euclid and the honorable and
intelligible highway of quadratic, 1
Kit plowed through the paper with-°
out enthusiasm, but except that he had'
the Orra Man'ss trick of putting•
Greek letters at the corners of his
figures, the Aberdeen LL.D. could find
little to object to. And perhaps that
very irritant trick, allinnocently used r
by Kit Kennedy, prevented hi
s exam
so made assurance
John Mac Walter kept ata distance: sheep. But the like o' the minister,
from Kit, who sat in his corner shy •
to makefaith, he's paid for to ocgie ht but,
and awkward, but relieved to find the the psalms ons ministers
heSabbath, nd tell
work easy and simple thus far, and'folk on the /street that it's a fine day
well within his possibilities. 1a' the rest of the week! We hae a
A tall, strongly -built Wigtonshire, petguit wheen ower rnony o' that kind,
lad came over to where Bit sat and: doon aboot the Garlies."
held out a horny hand with a friendly: Thus spoke Rob Grier, the smith -1
sin „ 1 student, with the scorn of Tubal -Cain!
"Hey, mon, he cried, heartily, I ! for them that only peep and mutter in
think surely I hae seen you hefore. that great sound heart of his. But:,
My name's Bob Grier. I come frae.Kit, having no liberty of prophesying:
the Garlics. What's yours, and where; among so many, held his peace. •
d'ye come free?" 1 Flodden began precisely at half -
Kit informed him gratefully, and; past two of the afternoon of the sec-!
straightway a fellow -feeling rose be- and day, when the Secretary handed
tween them, as being alike far from, out the Greek paper. Kit read it
home, and rough country lads among I calmly over, and without observing
so many Letter taught and better clad. the look of aghast surprise on every
"I misdoot neither o' us is like to , other face settled comfortably to his
get the siker,' said he of Gat'lies:l{ask of 'answering it.
"There's a yourg lad free aboot Nerer before had he known the full 1
Balmac.ellan that a minister tutored' capacities of the "Orra Man," and
—a fire laddie, too, but a wee delicate. ! the worth of his stern drill in match-; °
You or me, Kennedy, could twist him! ing the Greek word and phrase, not;,
a' into knots. But I doot that at the with the English alone, but also with,
iearnin' he will twist us intil a cockit tee Latin equivalent, He benefited by
hat." "the list of words stuck on the barn
Kit smilingly admitted the prob- door when at the threshing, the it-'
ability, to far, at least, as he was' regular verbs which depended from a1
concerned. oint of the harness in the stable, the'.
"What schuie hie ye been at?" was rules pinned above his candlestickand
Grier's next question "What, nano the red and blue marks which decor
since ye were eleven year auld ! That's ated the grammars the classical mss-' h
fair desperate. Ye it no ken whether' ter had bought for him from the gen-1
ye are richt or wrang, haein' naebody eral dealer in Dumfries.
to tell you. Did ye do the version? So Kit began his paper with the
What, every word o't! Let's hear!" !same impartial succinctness which' h
Kit ran over a sentence or two ofIhad marked his method of dealing
his translation of Macaulay's periods• 'with the others. The only difference
Grier turned about and exalted, I say t was that on this occasion he left the'
lads here's a Monte that has sent in al ; version to the last because, as he said s
the ha,; version, every word; and he! to himself, "the rest was so easy.";t
can gte it aff his tongue like as if it , And so it was—to a pupil of the "Orra ; t
was the Shorter's uastionsl" I p p
Man " Kit finished his paper leaked
This old Indian guide at the Lake of the Woods' camp points out, for til
benefit of tbe fair hunter, where all the game Is hidlag,
while Peggy, the sedate old white
mare, jogged aleng, happily quite able
to conduct herself honte to Cairn -
harrow, for neither' of her masters
paid the least attention to her. She
hitched her head'" occasionally when
the "Orra Man" dragged on the rein
which he had thrown over• his arm
and which he was apt to pull upon i
ti
the. extremity of his anxiety, This
hitch expressed Peggy's contempt for
the dead languages. Peggy did not
mind going home all unguided, but
she ex ted to have her head to her-
self when elle was doing it.
"Now tell me all that you put down
exactly—the Latin paper first."
The "Orra Man" frowned at o
two of the phrases.
"You should have bettered that," h
said, without a word of graiae.
"I ken," said Kit humbly, "hut it's
no so easy when ye' hear a' their pens
racin' like the Skyre Burn corrin' doom
in spate off Cairnharrow!"
They were at the loaning end of
ti
INTERVIEWED BY A
TIGER
By David Ker
"Tiger hunting's very good fun in 1
way," said Mr'. Carter, aa we sat in t
verandah of bungalow one line even
ing, watching the sun sink over th
rocks that overhung the Nsrbudd
River. "It's very good fun—et leas
so long as—you're hunting the tiger
but 'when the tiger takes to huntlne
r you, It's not quite so jolly.
"But, although I've had .some nar-
e row escapes in that way, too, I'd soon-
er have them all twice over than one
such adventure as happened to me
close to this very spot many years ago:
"In those days, as you may think,
the place looked very different from
bas won it millions of users.;rs. Finer
than any Japan, Gunpowder or
Young I3iyr$on. Ash for SALA J A.
alt more comfortable; for then, at
least, I would have bad a .chance to
,fight or run, But, jammed as I was
to this precious bole, with nay head
just level with the ground, I seemed
Pet there oil purpose for the beast to
eat whenever be liked
"The tiger saw me as plain esu I saw
1t1n, itne came ereeping` on. till I mead
feel his hot breath on my face.and I
could see every one of the great white
fangs that glittered so ominously in
e ( the ntonnllght. Why didn't I shoot
to htm, you say? Why, just because at
he the very first movement I made, he'd
have bitten my head off, like a stiaw-
o berry. My only chance was to keep
a 'stock still—and I did It.
t ""Aleanwhile, Mr, Tiger seemed mato
as much taken aback as I was. Tho
sight of a man's Tread growing out of
the ground like a mushroom was, no
doubt, quite a new thing 1n bis expert-
emce, and he evidently did not know
what to make -of it. He prowled beak -
ward and forward in front 0f mo, sniff-
ing uneasily, and coming so close to
me every now and then that the froth
from his open jaws and great red
tongue flow off 1n flakes all over my
face.
"This was bad enough, as you may
think, but it was a mere joke as to
what was coming. For now the tiger,
leaving looked at me long enough in
front,' ,colt it into his head to go round
behind ate.
Then I felt as 11 all was over. Even
whtle I could see what the tiger was
doing, it was quite as much as I could
bear to have him sniffing about me, as
if I'd been the batt of a trap. But when
he got round. behind my back and I ex-
pected every moment to feel his teeth
and claws in my flesh, without being
able to tell where he was or what he
was at- Ugh! • I+ don't like to think. of
the farm before the consideration
the papers and the criticism of the
answers were half done. Then Iia'
went directly to the stable loft where
he was to sleep with the "Orra Man,'
while in a sort of dream John .Smith
gave Peggy her supper and went in
for his own. He had scarcely been
gone a quarter of an hour when he
was back again, and Kit could hes
his feet rattling impatiently on the
ladder at the end of the corn -chest
by which access- was gained to the
"left" where they were to sleep.
John Smith had a large "whang"
of scone and cheese in his hand, which
he gave to Kit for his supper. And
the boy answered his master's eager
questions as between alternate bites
the "Orra Man" bent his keen face
over the crackling examination pa-
pers. The whole work of the two days
must begone over again, and the
light had n to ooze up from the
east like gravy through the crust of a
pie before the "Orra Man" delivered
his final judgment.
"Weak in mathematics, good in
English, respectable in Greek, and
your Latin version about as good as if
I had done- it myself."
And with this far from enthusiastic
forecast Kit had to be satisfied. - He
slept as soon as his head touched the
pillow. But several times he opened
his eyes as he turned over, and each
time he saw the "Orra Man" with the
ight of the stable lantern still upon
the papers, conning each question and
stimating marks and deductions upon
he margin with a stubby pencil.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
of what ft does now. The leeway wasn't
even begun them and I was the only
t white man fpr tulles round.
"All this Gioerink was as thict as 4
hat brush, with trees and jungles right
down to the water's edge, and. if you
wanted to go anywhere, your only
chance was to look for for some place
r where an elephant had crushed hie
way through 'the thickets, and then
follow his track.
"I don't beleve you'd have slept very
sound here in those times. I can pro-
mise you I didn't for the first month
or so. No sopner did It get -dark than
1 you'd hear a row like fifty cracked
trumpets all blowing net once, and by
that you would know that an elephan
was coming down to drink at the
river.
'Then that would wake up the croco
dilea in the mud along the bank, and in
a minute they'd all be splashing and
' bellowing in chorus; one louder than
another.
"Then the monkeys in the trees over
head would begin chattering and howl
j
Ing like mad. Then that- would rouse
some dreadful old native bird, whose
name I could never find out (perhaps
no out had ever been able to invent
one bad enough for it), and it would
start shrieking away as if somebody
was being nntrdered.
""And then, all at once, there would
THD INNOCENCE OF :BETTY LANDS -
BOROUGH.
During the next fortnight the "Orra
Man" lost weight. He did his work
mechanically, and it was wee that it
appened to be the end of the harvest
and a wet uncertain season. Fbr
It was much to do at Cairnharrow,
and that kept him from thinking. He
ad estimated Kit's chances fifty
times, and forty of these he had made
Ifit out to be safe. The other ten it
seemed to him impossible that the lad
hould not have supped in some essen-
ial. Vague fears assailed him whe-
her he himself might not have lost his
oId taste and knowledge, and be judg-
ng his pupil's performance too high.
But at last the great day came, and
he "Orra Man" asked a holiday from
is master.
At first Rogerson of Cairnharrow
emurred.
"Smith," he said, "what's gene
zvrang wi' ye? Ye are no drinkin',
re ye? If ye are, for Guid sake gang
en a spree decently and has dune wi't.
Half a dozen of t candidates sur-
rounded Kit.
"Say it again," said Grier, who, be-
ing a generous lad, wished his new
friend to shine.
Kit repeated his version as accur-
ately as possible.
"That's not classical Latin," said
John Mac Waiter; "and what a funny
way to speak it! It's easy to see he
disna ken muekle!"
The sm.th from Garlies turned on
again at the tenses of the verbs shook'i
his head at a construction which did 1
not seem quite right, folded the t
t foolscap sheets neatly up, and carried h
lit to the Secretary.
"That will do; you can go now," d
the sjteaker, "Aye, my gwidow gti„nu
dishc.out, and what dub did they fish
you oot o' wi' a worm? What grand
Pees it a>rctulia
after e'very� meal:
Gee the family
the !benefit of its
aid to digestion.
Cleats teeth too.
Keep it always
en the , house. 1181
"Costs Mae-•
kelps nude
iSIIUd No. 8f -'2d,
said Mr. Ebenezer Fleming, W.S
""You well be present to hear the an-
nouncement of the successful candi-
date made in this room this day fort-
night"
Kit looked back, and Rob Grier, sit-
ting biting his pen, waved a friendly
hand. Rut all the rest were too deep-
ly engrossed in. making Greek bricks
without the necessary straw of (from. -
mar and - vocabulary to be conscious
of his departure.
Their sole comfort was that all were
equally bad. Why, there was that
muirland boy, Kennedy the name of
him—hs had fairly given the thing up,
and sent in his paper without finish-
ing it.
The candidates separated with a
general idea that the prize lay be-
tween the ministers leen from Balma-
dollen, who wars delicate, and John
Mac Walter, who declared that he was
sure to get it, For in these things
confidence always counts for a good
deal.
Kit met the ""Orre. Man" at the
middy on his way to Calrnharrow.
So keen was hie teacher to know how
he had don -e that he could hardy wait
till they were in the cart, rattling
along the autumnal drift of dead
leaves which filled all the lanes,
t ""Wei.?" said the "Orra Man."
"I dinna ken," -aid Kit, mournfully,
•for on the way he had had time to
'think of all that he might have.dene;
"there were ithers wrote far mair tier
T1;ey fair covered miles o' paper.
I And tilben was a verb I wasna sure
to in the Greek."
"Have yon the papers with you?"
The hands of the claesiett.l master
were trembling. It was growing dark,
so he lighted the stable lantern, and
a
•
For I canna be dein' wi' thee off an
Ion ways—a drappie here and a drap-
e there, and nae satisfaction Ova'!”
With this permit and a number of
ommisaions to be executiced in Cairn
dward, the "Orra Man" was allowed
o depart on a wet, gusty morning in
to September, when the winds were
cueing mournfully up the valley with
hat desolate sound which is heard
on y it ate autumn, when the foliage,
ank above and sodden below, swishes
ope:ess:y this way and that, and
hen from far came the roar and
ough of the torrents off the hills, his -
ng and falling, filling and thinning
out again with a certain large so:e.un-
ty of note:
Kit had been at the cottage Per ten
ays, giving himself little anxiety as
bursaries and colleges. He went
ut each day with his grandfather and
earned the whole art and srienre of ,
tuna-brealdng. He broke his grand
ether's epare hammer shaft and
anufactured a new and better one.;
ever was seen such a pile for one'
week's work as Kit and the Elder had
ready on 'Saturday for the surveyor
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when ho came along the road with - this
mart gig and little light -trotting nag. i
His grandmother purred over Kit
and contrived esoteric dainties for,
im. His uncle Rob the forester Mole
im to see the damage tis wild goat' '
f the hills had done the young trees, •
he big wasp's net in the fir on the
ill top (threw:, stings), turd to;rethac
hey harried six .bumble -bees' stote•
ousels in the meadow (one titin;;
ach). Taken for all in a 1 Kit had
uch a time as he had not had since
e first went to school, He Saw his
maand pups' huddled under a sack s
tri the eoamer Of the rod farm cart, h
"I felt thee another minute or two
of this work would drive me mad out-
rig'ht, and I made up my mind to
scramble out of the holo, rush upon the
tiger and take my chance. But at that
moment I beard a shot behind me, and
then a tremendous roar, and turning
my head, 1 saw the brute springing at-
a tall man in white, who looked like
an English oflMeer. -
"I jumped out of the hole like an
acrobat, and leveling my rifle, gave the
tiger both barrels. The great beast
reared up to his full height, with a -sav-
age snarl that showed all his fangs at
once, and then rolled over dead as a
come rolling through the depths of thee.
forest the roar of a tiger, which seem -
life,''
eve to thank you for saving my
ed to strike them all silent for a Mo-
ment, as a cannon drowns the crackle the stranger.
of flreworks; but le another minute or " 'On the contrary,' said he, 'It's 11
two, they were all just as bad as ever. that have to thank you for saving
"But the things that plagued me the` ntd'tte' •
meet were the jackals. You've heard " 'Well, I fancy we're about even
them often enough, and so you can there,' answered I; 'but this shall be
judge what it must have been fora the test time Dever try shooting from
man fresh out from Europe to hear a !tole.
under his window, every night and all And it was. the last time, euro
might lop, a noise as if forty children enotagle"
were being bitten by half a dozen mad
dogs. .
"At last I couldn't stent it any long-
er, and I made up my mind that I'd
teach them to hold their tongues be.
fore I had done with them, if 1 had to
f
keep watch for -a ortnight to do it.
"So, early one morning, f went out
to a small clearing in the very heart'of
the wood, where there were plenty of
jackals' tracks about, and dug a hole
deep enough to cover me, leaving just
my bead and arms out.
"Then I waited until night came on
and when all my native servants were
asleep, I took my double-barreled rifle
and away I went and got intrd the hole
to walt till the jackals turned up.
"But one would have thought the
saeaking brutes knew what I was af-
ter; for, although they had come 1n
crowds wren I didn't want them, yet
now, when I was watching and wishing
for them, not one would chow has nose,
"Well, there 1 walted and waited, till
at last I got so tired and stiff that I
was just thinking of giving it up and
going home to bed, when 1 thought I
heard a rustling in the thicket in front ;
of ate,
The next moment there was a sharp
crackling, like drled taiga snapping
under a heavy •weight, and out Into
tale clearing, with every point of him
quite plain In the glnrions summer
moonlight, came stalking the biggest
tiger 1 had ever s•aoa do day life.
"It's no use trying to make out that
I wasn't frightened. I war frightenefl,
and very badly frightened, too, I can
tell you,
"Indeed, 1 couldn't well have been 1,1
•
can 1 was, It I had been
its a tree, I should have had no fear,
for tbe Bengal tiger can'tclimb like
tits panther or the cougar. Even if 1
had been out on level grouted, I'd have
mother twice for an hour at•a time
down ,hy the Lochside in the p'aee
ani ere he had promised her that be
weed bt a i,reat man,
(To be continued.)
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One -Bided Health.'
"Poor thing, she has such one-sided
-health." t
"What can you mean?" -
"Well, the glow of health on one of
ber cheeks is always so much stronger
than on the other:"
•"Whate0 the matter, Iota; anything
• troubling' you?" asked Ilhts I-reskine,
the proprietor of the etoro,'as-Mr. BOW.
utast tools cis accustomed chair by the
sieve and began to whittle in silence.
'"1o; only 1 was ;Just thinking hose
dfderont i;tiings aro, now trout what
they were when WO ere Cloys. Wo
never useter have any holidays, sato
Twentyfourte of May and Dominiou
Dsyl'but now--"
WI at
started you
In Iliac train of
thought?"
• "Oh, I suppose lt'e that boy of mine,
`,,t,/ Illdt, going fisliing again,
CLI �-y k
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"Well, it eine a orime-tel go fish#ng,"
"No, 'tttin't a cringe, but Seems to me
ll.'s it kind of foolish waste of time.
attend a whole clay getting a
uter,e of Ilse that Ito owed buy for half
O doll, conte bms tickled
wl.th hliarnealland as a boyo•?aanias labs first
pah' of pants,"
"Yes, I know," said Mr. Hoskins re-
fbeetivaly. "It's partly in the way you
look at it and partly in folks. Some
will just eft and fish all day and think
' of nothing but what they're oatening
or going to catch, and others will kind-
! er meander along a stream and see
1 what birds are nesting and what plants
are in bloom and whethea'•the. berrles
I are going to sot thick eir not, and a lot
1 0' other things that don't seem to have
j much to do with fleeing. I knew a Sse1
low of that kind once that -earned a
Year's salary in a day's flshiug.o,
f "Found a mussel with a big pearl in
1t, or something, 1 suppose," ventured
Air, Bowman with a note or sarcasm
'in his voice.
} "leo; nothing of the kind. Ile was
just. trout fishing, with a hook and
line, but he wars always one of the kind
that notices things. He worked for
the railroad then --and does now—and
his boss was just like you, Joel, only
I more so. - Didn't believe in going fish-
ing or playing games or anything much
but working. Called it a waste of time .
same as you do.
"Well, this follow, Bert Ives, went
down to Sharon Brook one day and
fished along 'side of the railroad track.
' When he went to the office the next
1 morningbe says to hie boss, 'What
ehonld you say 111 should tell you that
for a few hundred dollars—say two,
hundred—we could do away tviilt two
bridges on our main line?"
" 'I should say you stayed too long
in the holt sun yesterday,' says the
boss, kinder crabbed; but Ives just
grinned and drew a little map and
talked so reasonable that finally the
boss ways, 'You go get your hat. We're
going down there."
"You remember, the big sand hill
that makes out Into the marsh, and the
way the brook lister curve round it and
turn left and south again almost op-
posite were it made the right tura on
the north, side? Well, 11 ain't that way
now, and 1'.m telling you why.
"When they built the railroad they
made a deep cut straight through the
sand bank, and of course they had to
bridge the brook where the road en-
tered the tut end again where it came
out; but slope then they'd been eutttng
away the hill on what you might'call
the land side, to get ballast, so that
at that time it was all level, back for a
stretch of a hundred yards or so; end
all it was needful to do to get rid 'of
the two bridges was to ,lig a ditch right
alongside of the track end turn -the
brook into 11, Any foto could see It
when it was pointed out to him, but no-
body had noticed 11, and they'd gone
on repairing and renewing those
brjdges till'that day when Ives went
fishing there,
"The joke of 1t was that the steam
shovel had been working there most
of the time and was there on the flat,
then, so that all the cbange cost was
the expense of moving the shovel a
hundred yards, for they need the gra-
vet from the ditch for ballast anddid
not have so far to haul It.
"Ives always maintained that 'spare
the rod and spoil the child' meant e
fishin' rod, but I do' know's I should go.
so far as that."
"Humphl" said Mr, Hoskins redee-
tivsly. "My father never understood
it that way." •
First -Aid Tips.
Both' on the Tiler and sea, drowning
fatalities are'unfortunately apt to oc-
cur at thie-.time of the year, and many
a life has been lost for the went of a
little knowledge in dealing, with a per-
son who has been dragged from the
water.
The most important tiring to do ie
to excite breathing by ab'teficial menus. -
And efforts to do this should not be re-
linquished until fully two hours after
the person has been token on lend,
Breathing may be exalted by turning
the patient on one side 'and applying .
smelling -salts to the nose, or tickling
the throat with a feather, ilub the
chest with hot and cold water• alter.
mately. If tele fails, turn the body on
the Mee, and Sion on to the side again,
repeating dila movement every tow
seconds. At each turn press the body
beneath and between the eh0ulder
lead es.
When breathing has been restored,
it Is lmporteet,10 prcenote warmth aiee
cireulntlou. Tilde can be done ey
vlgdroue rubbing of the body, and tlthe -
application of hot-water booties, flan-
nets, and so on, Waren the power 01
swallowing ltaa returned, give the pe'
tient a little wine or brandy,
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It costa us Moro to be tnlberable
than would make us happy,