The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1883-01-18


ness ovcrpowered me at last awoke
unrefreshed. During the day ! was
lauguid aud tired, but dared not lie
down, for knew by experience that
II | slept by daylight | was almost
certain to fall into trance on
awsking. A. consequence OF all
tins mental disturbance / became Sc
riously III, aud ! was ordered to the
country: but before arrangements
could be made for me TO 70 | was
stricken down with brain fever, and
my life was despaircd or
The brain fever was conquered
but | was very weak so weak that !
did not rallv The doctor, always
cheerful, said | never would. | lay
for days, neither asleep nor awake,
but not in a trance. for could move
aud speak fecby, She may 20 on
ike the snuff Of candle A. auS
minute, said the doctor IN my hear
ing, aud nearly verified his predic-
ton by going out At once
"One day was June 2. lsGI-I
felt that | was really improving. Life
seemed 10 bo coming back to me The
doctor had not noticed it, bur knew
by g uuwonted di-lincinc-, with
which the rumble Of the GrccupDin'
Wagons struck upon my ear that |
vas gathering new strength. A. a-r
I grew tired. AMI, for .hc dr-' umo I'm
several weeks, slept souuiiy amt
hcalth,ly.
Il awokc slowly aud with the
rigor OF limb that knew - wei. An
unuttcrable horror took possession Vt
{ ..I 1 s,. !
remembered the good doctors capac.
ily for laundering. Nv f,ar- were
well founded, for halt an hour later.
when the nurse came to look NJ mo.
heard her utter quick exclamation
of alarm, aud hurrying away, she
called my mother and sisters The
doctor was summoned aud arrived
when ali my relatives in the house
were around my bed. lie felt my
| pulse, put his hand upon my tore
head, forced open one Of my eyes aud
examined the pupil, little thinking
that saw him rs plainly a. he saw
me, and sOrrowfully remarked
II feared it, She is going fast
"Oh the misery of that day and
the night following! Ga the morning
Of June 81 my body was cold and
stiff, aud while my mind was "a ac.
| tive rs ever, ! knew that | looked like
corpse. My friends thought me
/ tead, and when the doctor came they
stood aside, silent and weeping. and
made way for him to approach the
! bed. He looked at me steadily for
few seconds, and then said rover
cntially
"'Gcs, poor creature, she is gone,
and he covered my face with the
sheet.
"Anl this was the man who had
first told me that an cpilcptic ii might
/ be so prolonged ~ to be mistaken for
death. My Indignation at that mo
mcnt absolutely OvcrpowcrCd M fear
/ Otherwise, believe, | should have
died on the spot.
"Fur more than two days lay mo
IiOnle-s OH the bed. Iuhcroscs were
-trewn over me. Friends came to
see me, and reminded each other Of
good qualities in me thai neither by
myself or others had ever before been
-u-p rcted. heard it all. Nobody
/ spoke Of me except as n corpse, none
noticed, what am sure must have
| been apparent, that my face had not
lost the color of life, aud ON the night
of June 4th, lay beside my open
coffin On the morning of the 5lh |
was put into it, Tor was to be buried
that day.
81 had heard the inscription on the
| plate read aloud. over aud over again:
Clara Munce, Aged 10 years Poor
girl. So young to be called away.
| But she WAS always delicate Oh,
why could not speak ? could not
| even try to speak or move. All Volt
ton seemed to have died in me, and |
could only pray silently that | might
die, too, before the last rites were
pcrfo-med, but | felt that there was
little chance of that, because WAS
full OF life.
the undcrtakcr's men were in the
room waiting to fa- en- down the
coiliu lid. Kisses iunumcrable had
been showcrcd upon my face, and |
had given up all hope OF htr, when
an old lady, worth all The rest of the
visitors put together, elhowcd the
others out of her way, and stood be-
side the committee. She was my
Aunt Jane, aud she had come from
Albany to see her favurirc ni,cc for
the Inst time. Her presence seem .
to caIm me, for we loved each ulhci
50 well that could not think II pos
.ible that she would allow me to be
buried alive. She was stopping tn
kiss me when she sud denly started
back with the very simple aud homely
remark:
"'Why her nose Is bleeding"
at wus perfectly true, though mp
TO that time nobody had uourc1 II
My mcual agony haj made my nose
bleed
"Nov. ''cdoctor knew quite enough
about his business to be very much
startled at seeing fresh blood flow ing
| tIom 81 body that had been drad two
/ days lie examined NV face and said
hastily, ~ he for the first time mo-
riccd the color, Take her back TO
| bed
"The suddcuncss and immensely of
the relief restored all my faculties and
as the mcu took mo up I ,uid. with
hardly IN fort, aud in perfect uatu-
ra! tones.
"'Thauk YOU, doctor. How are
| you, AuureN
81 think have told You nearly the
| whole story. recovered very quick
. ly and have never had "a trance since.
| The doctor still practicrd medicine In
/ Grccnpoint, aud il considered one OF
/ its best authorities on diseases of
children, aud whenever he sees me he
tells me coulldentially that from the
J first he had a latent suspicion that the
/ vital spark fingered somcwh here but
| | do hlm the justice TO discredit the
I statement
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