Year: 1864

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I had hardly done so when the sister
returned with bowl in her hand.


Drink this, said she.


Seeing my arm as extended it from
the bed, she cried


Why you are not undressed. I will
call the nurse to assist you
1 had no need, however, of any person
for this operation, and in an instant 1 was
extended at my ease between two white
sheets, and in a better bed than that Of
the barracks.


Queer fatigue duty this, said I to
myself, without being able to understand
what it all meant.


This was a mystery, cousin.


Wholly, wholly, replied my cousin,
rising and replacing triumphantly upon
his head bis hat, which he had just re-
moved. I don't deny that there was in
all this a total mystery, but the mysti6
cation was not of my making.


Behold me, then, nursed up the rest of
the day, drinking cup upon cup of diet
drinks, and saying to myself, We'll, I
did not think His Majesty the Emperor
and King took SO much care of his SOL
diers for a little cold. All the world are
not so fortunate. I know some who are
more sick than me, who can not obtain
admission to the hospital My superiors
have distinguished me; they have seen
in me a precious subject I will have a
corporalcy before long, and will become
Marshal of France


Three days passed thus. I have eaten
with will, in spite of my cold; but /
have been sent to the hospital to be treat
ed, and I submit with a resignation which
enchants the good sister Martha. TIE
surgeon on his part was no less pleased
with a patient who took without a grim
ace, purgatives, detersives, pectorals, and
1 know not what l swallowed every
thing.


But, cousin the doctor ought to have
known you were not sick


And do theylsend a well man to the
hospital?' replied my cousin. The sur
ge0B of a hospital obtains. lfss5 knsas5Jge
Of the case from other sources, not from
the patient; now with my order for ad-
mission to the hospital I had received a
certificate that had disease of the chest,
and they have sent me to St. Joseph S
Hall to be under the special care of the
lung doctors There was a fixed system
for the whole ward, and I followed the
system.


The fourth day appeared at my bed
side the first sergeant He had frown-
ing eounteuance, which boded no good.


What are you doing here?' demanded
he, sharply.


Why, sergeant, I drink, I perspire-
according to orders


The major says you are not sick


I know nothing about that, sergeant.


How you know nothing about it? Il
is not you who ought to be here, it is
Peter Bonaventuro.'


I have thought that more than once
sergeant. But you yourself brought me
here, and obeyed, as was my duty


The deucer cried the sergeant; you
ought to have known there was a mis-.
take. But, no, you have preferred to al
low yourself to be nursed up, while Peter
Bonaventure, really sick in his quarters
waits from day to day his admission tC
the hospital. Get up, you rascal, and g
to your quarters; you deserve to have
eight days in the guard house


Discipline forbade my replying to ny
superior. I got up-but for my whole
costume I had only pair of pantaloOns
hospital dressing gown, and cotton
night-oapl


Where's your uniIorm?'
In the clothing room, sergeant,
'Halloal somebody, cried the ser
geant, with the voice Of a Stsntor, ant
all the patients sprang up in their beds.
What is it, for mercys sake?' erie,
sister Martha, rushing forward. Ho7
is this? are you up in spite of the direc
tiOns of the Director2 6he surgeOn-in
chief of the hospital.) You know yer,
we'll that it is not time


1T is time for him tc leave here
] roughly responded the sergeant.


To leave here; when he is in a fai
4 way to recover2


j In fair way to recoverr responde
. the sergeant. Il should think so indeed
! I wish the surgeon many patients as cas-
to cure as this one. We are going t
send him one who will give him a littl
trouble. Come-marchl
C The lamentations of the sister availe
nothing. I had to go to the clothin


room to dress myself, and follow the SCI


geant. I had difficulty in keeping u
% him. The debilitating treatment to whic
1 1 had been subjected, had rendered n
d weak. The sergeant kept muttering


know not what between his teeth, an