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form of the dysentery, gave him some medicines, and directed him to keep his bed. This he was very unwilling to do, saying he was not sick, there was nothing the matter with him at all; however, he obeyed and kept his bed for a week. He had some fever, but no pain and complained of nothing but excessive weakness. Though he had never been seriously ill before since his infancy, and was wholly unwilling to the confinement of the bed-chamber he lay patient and quiet through that long week, saying but little, and asking for nothing but that some member of teh family should stay with him all the time; he could not bear to be left alone: Mother especially he loved to have beside him in then he seemed quite satisfied. Weakness prevented him from talking much but his mind was very active as an occasional remark would show. "Oh Mother!" he sayd one day, "I don't see how the young men can act as they do. I can't and I can't associate with them--Ishall treat them poliety, but I cannot be intimate with them: I am going to stay home always with you and my sisters -- I love my sister, and I love my home and I never want to go anywhere else!" On Sabbath the 29th fo August the fever left him, he also arose and was dressed but had several fainting turns thrrough the day; on Monday, the Doctor told him that he was getting on finely, would be able to down stairs the next day and, would need medical advice no longer. Then he left him to sink and die! -- whether the Physician's

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