And when I washed out the clothes
aftei some pitientS linseed poultices,
I u^cd to think Hat would not tall to
my share whe 1 I became a doctor, foi
I noticed the weio vei\ fastidious
about the actual work. Then I had
elped mamma pull all the childien
iluough the meisle^ and scailet fever,
112: both diseases myself after thcA
weie all better, and helping the doctoi
set Tom's leg and euro Hint's gun
shot wound, when Dick mistook him
for a partridge, all made me handiei
than most gnls for hospital woik. Foi
I had to be irned before Alice, and
Jack and I went hick ?o rue seaand
all thiousrh biain clumiga long
siege of sea-sickness ian the lefrain:
"Si ihng, sailing
Oicr tho stormj. mam
and then, a*- 1 dupor lmcli would be
given to the vessel, I would menSify
icpe it
Many a stormy Trr shall blow,
Hre Jai.li comes home a-am
I was with Jack now, and home was
afar offwe were our way to the
Bnttsh Hondni is for a cirgo of ugar
And one da\ as I la3 in 1113 berth
sea-sick md home-sick in spite of Jack,
he came looking very pale. I asked
languidly what was the mactei, as a
big green wa\e dashed gamst the
poi t-hole. i
"Don't be alarmed, dear," he said,
"buttlieie is small-pox on board, and
and I must leave 3011 and keep \o
isolated, with the other three lust cabin
passengei's."
And then I fif^se in my might and
asked him wh it he took me for, to keep
itself like a baby when he was in dan
ger. And I got out of bed. an dreoea,
and took down all my medical books,
and packing awajT
Better for a few days. Returns. After
a while neuralgia transfixes him. 