Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-02-29
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'.''i~ "oih VIII oc fepQ0ASncQ mere In few
days.
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Gone day, as was walking in the gar
den with Mrs. Vaudeville and the females
Of the family, it came into nv head that
Emily would like to have a beautiful moss
rose that | bad Just gathered Thinks -to.
mEsey, I'll so and stick 1t in her bosom -
al thai very moment had such an ex:raor-
Diary SECURE the humping at my heart, that
was ready to drops but what appeared to
me more strange was, that | coukd not go to
her, 90 what would for the first time III
my lie telt sort OF dread e her. While
Mrs. Vaudeville had been questioning me a
bout the ball at Nacotjum Cts;le, little be-
tore, thought she looked dlspleased with
ne, and when expected il Of her as q friend
that She would have LIKED to hear of the notice
that had been taken Of me, observed she
walked quite. away: | had never quarrellcd
witt her in tlt my life, nor she with me:
would have done any thing to have served
her, or pleased her and now that | felt
ati'&lG OF her, Still seemed 10 want to serve
her and please her more than ever !:
1II''s-I-t o-mYSe5T certainly am bewitched !;
soon after, she came up to Us of her own &C
cord: IHiak&-I-to-mysrif now I'll give the
rose SO went to her W it'll ii, aDC, was going
to oi'arit, bat my tongue suddenly got SO per-
tectly dry in my mouth, that I'll be hanged if
! could speak a word. THinks-I to-muself
am certainly going to die. l was SO frighten-
cd, got away as soon after as could but
the humping continued all the way home,
worse think than ever. | was afraid to tell
my mother OF it because knew she would
send for Mr.. Bous, and that always ended in
such severe and long-continued discipline, pc
nerally beginning with an emetic, which tore
me to pieces, that | always kept my maladies
to myself as long as | could.
g AS nv sister was ust come home, / ask
ed her about il, but she only laughed at me,
though could not tell why: got into my
fathers library one morning, in order to try
if could find my case in any of the physical
books there, of which he had store lock-
ed into good many, Just running over the
symptoms OF each, which caught my eye,
as being In capital letters, thus, SYMPTOMS,
and it's past all conception, what variety
of diseases seemed to have for to look
for bunting only, was nothing the more
read, the more symptoms | detected u
was not aware of q hundredth part of what l
suffered, tRlthe book suggested them Il plain
ly saw my case to be at least thought SO
then) complication of all the classes, orders,
genera, and species of disease, that had ever
afflicted the race of man. AS l went along,
and questioned myseJas TO the several synh-
toms fthe difffrent disorders as laid dozvn in
the BOOK, | found / had not only cummings
but dreaGfnl hal1a II my head and loins, with !
a zveariaess climbs, stretching, yaqvming, shi-
vrying, and shakins, which are pretty plain
signs as any body mustalow, ofan approaching
fever: had r3gour or chhliness, haius in my
back, difficulty Of breathing. / had a violent
t'lcking pain in one of the sides, deep down
among my ribs, which was manlfestly a-hleu-
risy or heri1mcumoay; could not exactly dis
Germ which had violent .fnshings in the face,
disturbed elcet, and a singing in my earS,which
seemed to me, to indicate a hArenitis: had
a painful tension on the right side also, just
opposite the hricking pain on my left, under
the false ribs, which knew at once to be a
disordered liner; in short, kept looking and
looking, till was evidently convinced, that
had not a sound part about me, and l should,
am persuaded, have taken to my bed and d.
I'd, TO the great Joy of Mrs. Fidget, if it had
not been that rather zOished TO die. Ever