Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-19
doubt il. Is ruined. Poor cat, suppose you

doubt IT, is ruined. Poor cat, suppose you
Now. am not going to suppose suythfng
about TIE cat. II never would have ccurr q
IL Maria had been allowed tn remain here
and attend to these duties, when are in her
lire fnd are not in mine"
Now Mortimer, l should Think you " auld
be a hamed To make a remark like that IL is
o pity If you cannot do the few little thin IS
that ak 81 you At such an awful time as
this. when our child"
There, Tn, r., / will do anything you want,
But can't raise anybody with this bell.
They re all gone 10 bed. Where is the goo e.
greese?''
"On the man tel piece in the nursery. If
you'll step there and speak TO Maria
fetched the goose grease and went to sleep
again. Once more / was called.
Mortimer. / so hate to disturb you, but
the room is still too cold for me 10 try TO APP
ply this stuff Would you mind lighting the
i dragged myself out and lit the fire, and
then sat down disconsolate.
MORTIMER, don't sit there and catch your
death of cold. Come TO bed"
AS was stepping in she said
"But walt moment Please give the child
some more of the medicine"
Which / did. Ii was a medicine which
made child more or less lively; so my vie
made use OF It's waking interval 10 strip IL
and grease 1t all over with the goose oil.
was soon asleep once more, but once more
had To get up.
Mortimer. feel a draft. feel 1t dis
tinctly. There is nothing 50 bad for this dis
ease as draft. Please move the crib in
font OF the fire."
I did 1T and collided with the rug again,
which l threw into the fire. Mrs. McWil-
liarns spTang out of bed and rescued ft aud
we had some words. 1 had another trifling
interval of sleep, and then got up, by re-
quest, and constructed flaXseed pOutice
This was placed upon the child's breast and
left there 10 do its healing work.
A wood fire is not a permanent thing. i
got up every twenty minutes and renewed
ours. and this gave Mrs. McWilliams an OBJ.
~
medicines by ten minutes, which was great
satisfaction to her. Now and then, between
times, recognized the 1axseed pouItices,
9Dd applied sinapisms and other bliSters
where unOccupied places could be found
uHon the child. Well, toward morning the
wood gave out, and my wife wanted me 10 60
down the cellar and get some more. L said:
MY dear, it is q labOriOus JOB, and the
child must be nearly warm enough, with her
extra clothing. Now. mightn't we put on
another layer of pOultices and"
did not finish, because / was Interrupted.
lugged wood up from below for some little
time, and then turned In and fell 10 snoring
as only man can whose strength is all gone
and whose soul Is worn out. At last at
broad daylight, l felt grip on my shoulder
that brought me to my senses suddenly. NV
wife was giaring down on me and gaspiug.
AS soon as she could command her tongue
she said:
1T is all over, All over! The child's per-
spring! What ShGU we dO?"
"Nercy, how you terrify me! don't know
what we ought to do. Maybe if we scrapei
her and put her in the draft again"
40, idiot! There is not moment to lose.
Go for the doctor. Go yourself. Tell him he
mast come, dead or alive"
dragged that poor sick man from his
red, and brought him. He looked at the
child, and said she was dying. Tuis was 10y
uEspeakable to me. but Ii made my wife a
mad as If he had offered a personal afro1t.
Then he said the child's cough was only
caused by some tTifling irritation or other in
the throat. At this thought my wife had
mind TO show him the door. Now the doctor
said he would make the child cough harder
and diSlOdge the trouble. SO he gave her
something that sent her into a spasm of
coughing, and presently up came a little
wood splinter or SO.
This child has no membranOuS Group"
said he.
''She has been chewing a piece of pine
single OF something OF the kind. and got
some little sliverS IN her throat. They won't
do her any hurt"
NO" said I. ''I can well believe that. In
deed, the turpeutiue that is in them is
very good for certain sorts of 81 seaSeS that
are peculiar 10 children. Ny wife Will tell
you So"
But she dill not. She turned away in dis
daiu, ara lei: ;ac room; ana since that time
there is one episode iii our life which we
never refer 10 Hence the tide OF our DAYS
flows by i'm deep and untroIoled serenity.