The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-02-26

"Heavens and carth!r no was now fully ia
his senses. Heavens and earth! What oil.
my head?'
For mercy's sake keep quiet said the
wife, the glad tears gushing over her fucc.--
|" You have been very ~. There, there now {"
and she spoke soothngly, don't say a word
But my head Whnts the matter with
my head IL feels rs If scnlded. Where's
my hair? Heavens and earth, Suruh!
don't understand this. And my arm, tied up
| in this way for?
| 90 BE quiet, my dear husband, and TIL ex-
plain 1t all, Oh, be very quiet Your life de-
ponds upon il ~
Mr. Il sunk back upon the pillow from
which he had arisen, and closed his eyes TO
think. lie put his hand TO his head, and felt
IL tenderly, all over, from temple TO temple,
and from nape to forehead
" Is it a blister 2" he at length asked
" Yes, dear. You have been very i'll. We
feared for your life, said Mrs. II, affec-
tionately. There have been two physicians
in attendance"
H closed his eyes again. His lips
moved. Those nearest were not much cdi-
fed by the whispered words that issued there
from. They would have sounded very
strangely in church or to ears polite and
refined. After this he lay for some time qui-
ct.
Threatened with apoplexy, suppose ?"
he then said interrogutvely.
1" Yes, dear" replied his wife. " | found
you lying insensible upon the floor on hap
pening TO come into your room. 1t was
most providentim that discovered you when
did, or you would certainly have died.
II shut Ills eyes and muttered some
thing, with an air of Impotence. But its
meaning was not understood.
Finding him out Of danger,the friends and
relatives retired, and the sick man was left
alone with his family,
Sarah he said, "why in Heavens name
did you permit the doctors to butcher me in
this way FIN laid up for week or two,
and all for nothing"
twas to save your life, dear"
Save the--n
Hush There, do be quiet. Everything
depends upon it,"
With gesture ofimpatence II shut
his eyes, teeth aud hands, and lay perfectly
still for some minutes. Then he turned his
face TO the wall, nuttering in low, petulent
voice
''Too bad Too bad I"
had not erred in my first and my last inn
pressions of H-'s disease, neither had DR..
s., although we used n very extraordna-
ry mode of treatment. The facts of the case
were these
H had weakness. He could MT taste
wine or strong drink without being tempted
inIo excess. Both himself aud friends we're
mortified and grieved at this and they, by
admonition, and he, by good resolutions, .
tried to bring about reform. But, to see .
was 10 taste. and 10 taste was to fall. At last, |
his friends urged him to shut himselfup at
home for n certain time, and see if total alb
stineuce would not give him strength. He
got on pretty we'll for n few days, particular ,
ly so, as his coachman kept well-tilled bot /
tie for him in the carriage-house, 10 which he .
not untrequenty resOrted but too ardent de-
votion to this bottle brought on the supposed
npopleXy.
Doctor s. was right in his mode OF .
treating the disease after all, and did not err
in supposing that it would reach the predispo-
sition.T The cure was effectuul. H-kept our |
ct on the subject, and bore his shaved head
with as much philosophy MS he conld master.
A wig, after tho sores made by the blister had
concealed the BARRIERS work I'M
Ill his own hair grew again. He never ven
ured upon wine or brandy again for fear of
ipopleXy.
When the truth leaked out, as leak out
such things always will, the friends ofH-
Iad many hearty laugh but they wisely
from the object of their merriment
he fact that they knew anything more than
appeared ofthe cause of his supposed ill-
ness.