The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-07

thati This is just the start! You get busy, Jim, and lend handl Get some more water on the stove, right awayl Then bring in some more woodl Help Asa get together all the clean clothes in the housel Don't stand therel Get movingl"
 Jim ogden was completely over- borne by the doctors driving ener- gy. He gulped. "All right, Doc!" he said. "I'll pitch in. It may be a bootleg job, but I guess I'm ii, 1t right with youl"
 He joined Nurse Kennedy in Q frantic search for anything and ev- erything in the house that could be used in the fight for five fiickering little lives. Towels, napkins, an old tablecloth, blankets, were pressed into service.
 
 Jim ogden was given the job of keeping Q fresh blanket warm ing in the oven all the time. Nurse Kennedy, rubbing the tiny babies from time to time with warm olive oil, would change the top covering blanket in the basket with Q warm fresh one which Jim's trembling fingers held out.
 Dr. Luke and Nurse Kennedy moved in 0 shuttle-like manner from the basket near the stove into the curtained alcove to attend the mother, and back to the basket Mrs. Wyatt, while coming through the ordeal in remarkably fine con- dition, required constant care, and the faint cries from the basket were a reminder that the babies, too, could not be left alone for Q moment.
 Gradually their cries grew more ilsistent. Look here, Jim," said pr. Luke abruptly. we've got to have two things = an eye dropper and 6 hot-water bottle. How long would 1t take you to get into town, get 'em, and bring 'eim back? These babies lives may depend on how fast you can do itl"
 ought to do 1t under an hour, said Jim, already half into his coat Tn a jiffy he was out the door and the roar of Q motcr was heard. Through the night, bouncing dafi- gerously over the narrow, rutted road, went Constable ogden. The fiickering kerosene lamps cast weird shadows on the board walls as doctor and nurse moved swiftly about the room. Sleep tugged at the eyes of both, but vigilance could not for a single Sec- ond be relaxed. Without the warmth provided by oven-heated blankets and hot bricks, they knew that the tiny babies would have little chance to survive.
 The screech of brakes told them that Constable Jim had returned, and @ glance at the battered alarm clock that stood crookedly on shelf above the stove told them that he had done 1t in 45 minutes. Nurse ennedy seized the hot water bottle and filled 1t from c kettle on the stove. At last, Q heat ing devise that would stay hot and provide some semblance of the in- cubator that they badly neededl Dr. Luke prepared to feed the babies with the eye-dropper. After some hesitation he decided that nothing more substantial than warm water should be offered them, and, on his knees beside the basket on the floor, he delicately administered few drops to each. The frightened Wyatt was of al- most no help at all. He crouched miserably in 8 corner, murmurin1 self-reproaches, asking no one fir particular what in the world hs was going to do, now that fivt more mouths were to be fed. Hs had had Q hard enough time feed. ing the six other children, whai with the way times were, and all When babies came one at time you could sort of get used to that but fivel
 From time to time Wyatt woult sneak quietly out, and for al UUuI UE HtOkC AhObAini8 WOuAA v seen of him. But doctor. nurse ans constable had plenty to do. am missed him little. noting only witi a grim smile that the chair in tn corner was vacant.
 "Just like Napoleon running otl on the battle of Waterloo" sai' Nurse Kennedy to the doctor, ex pertly folding Q warm blanket.
 "0oshl" replied Dr. Luke. !" don't know that I blame him. Tn whole things kind Of like Q dream anyway"
 There was beginning to be gray suggestion of dawn over th rocky hills and dark woods behln' the house when Dr. Luke knelt be fore the basket and baptized al five babies. With . dFbp of warn water moistening the brow Of eacl child. he muFmured the words q blessing and enumeration.
 MFa. wyatt WaN resting GeaiIj