The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-11-04
MR.. BILLTOP'S
COLD

Mrs. Billtops-' says" said Me. B.,
that when I'm sick ! fall down and
break up and collapse and go to pieces
generally. She doesn't say this ui'
kindly, you know, or anything IKE
that but she says that when In SICK
I'm baby, and l guess it's so.
Now for the last four days I've had
a cold, bad cold; lame and sore all
over, and so weak that it's hard WORK
for me to drag around. And yet
haven't been so dreadfully uncom!ort
able, in fact ] find sitting aroun III
easy chairs rather pleasant thaa
otherwise.
and Mrs. Billtops smiles and says
she guesses I'm not so dreadfully SICK;
and when tell her about all my pans
and tell her how miserable teei
generally she says, Why that's Just
a cold Ezra; you've got a hard cold
that's ALL" and then she smiles some
more and goes on about her WORK
she never let's up on that-and sit
back and make myself as near com
Portable as l can, thinking that. Well
perhaps that's all that Is the matter
with me, but wishing that whatever
It is might soon get over 1t.
But the worst thing about 1t all Is
that I've still got some appetite, on
wouldn't think that anybody feeling
the way I've been feeling the last iou'
days could eat a thing, but haN'
eaten fairly we'll, and Mrs. B. smiles
over that a little too and says tha'
anybody that can eat can't be so VerF
sick. but she doesn't say that to make
fun of me-far from it-she says thai
to encourage me and make me get
well quicker.
And as a matter of fact | am be
ginning to mend some. Coming home
last night l found myself whistling as
I came along the street, which is
something | never do unless tee'
we'll had just spontaneously, WIN
out knowing it, started whistling And
that was a pleasant surprise TO me-
but | stopped it right away, knowing
that was not as we'll aG l might be;
I had got to nurse my illness httle
yet; but l hadn't gone moren ten
rods further before | found mysel
humming a tune apparently my body
was feeling so much better that II
was bound to express itself somehow
even If l did try to choke it off; and
when l got into the house and MRS
Billions had taken a look at me:
Ezra she says, cheerfully, I thini
you are feeling better tonight, anc
| said:
eyes, think I am feeling lit
tie better, and before the evening wa
over found myself laughing at some
thing; and this morning I am really
feeling quite considerable better. ant
I think that by a couple OF days more
shall be back to normal.
(Which is my usual condition
am very rarely ailing at ALL almost in
variably enjoy excellent good health
and keen good spirits. and l am al
ways a little inclined to wonder tina
people should let themselves be cas-
down as they are just because the.
are a little off. What's the use
telling the whole world you can
stand a little bit of pain and suffer
ing?
so 1t strikes me when I'm feeling
as l almost invariably do, fit as
fiddle and looking at everything wit
the brightest possible view. But q
you know, l find it makes all the diI
ference in the world about this whetf
er it's the other fellow that's sick o
you.
"Yes, sir. When I'm we'll l wonde
why the ailing man doesn't look cheel
full, anyway; but when I'm sick fee
right away the need of sympathy"