They thought she would die, but now she is getting well. We went Up in her room, and she looked so funny in bed -with all her hair cut off. She lives on Tenth Street. Next January we, shall be half through the nineteenth century. I hope I shall live to see the next century, but I don't want to be alive when the year 2000 comes.
Some people say the world is coming to an end then, and perhaps sooner.
But now school has just closed for the summer, and I have more time. Professor Hume teaches us natural science, and every Wednesday he lectures to us. One day he brought the eye of an ox and took it all apart and showed us how it was like our own eyes. At another time he brought an electric battery. We all felt the shock, and it tingled.