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from room to room, until he found some one -- I used to get
very much put out with him when he caught us, as he some times
did, in deshabille in this way -- He and Judge Dupont, though
both excellent men, got at cross purposes in some way; misunderstood
each other and came to hate and abuse each other most
bitterly, and without stint --
Jesse Booth got on one of his most terrible sprees this
spring -- in March -- he went to Bainbridge on some business-;
& he could never go off without getting drunk-; he came to our house
in dreadful condition -- threatened with convulsions & delirium --
I had seen him through so many of these spells that I had lost
patience with him -- I sent to Bristol for Robert to come up
and take charge of him-; dosed him heavily with chloral, which acted
well with him-; after some days of miserable trial we got him
off home --
In May I bought a new Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine for
wife -- gave $90.00 for it -- One evening I was sewing on it
for her -- (she was not able to use it much, and I did much of
her sewing--) I was using a low glass, hand lamp, burning
kerosine -- the lamp was too low to shine on the work properly-;
so I placed a few books under it to raise-; I was sewing on
intently -- not noticing the lamp-; the shaking of the machine
gradually carried the lamp to the edge of the books, and it fell
over - as it went down, it struck the table of the machine,
and the whole bottom of the lamp was knocked off-, and almost
all the kerosene spilled in wife's lap-, she was sitting on the
opposite side of the machine, the lamp fell at her feet still | page_009292
from room to room, until he found some one -- I used to get
very much put out with him when he caught us, as he some times
did, in deshabille in this way -- He and Judge Dupont, though
both excellent men, got at cross purposes in some way; misunderstood
each other and came to hate and abuse each other most
bitterly, and without stint --
Jesse Booth got on one of his most terrible sprees this
spring -- in March -- he went to Bainbridge on some business-;
& he could never go off without getting drunk-; he came to our house
in dreadful condition -- threatened with convulsions & delirium --
I had seen him through so many of these spells that I had lost
patience with him -- I sent to Bristol for Robert to come up
and take charge of him-; dosed him heavily with chloral, which acted
well with him-; after some days of miserable trial we got him
off home --
In May I bought a new Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine for
wife -- gave $90.00 for it -- One evening I was sewing on it
for her -- (she was not able to use it much, and I did much of
her sewing--) I was using a low glass, hand lamp, burning
kerosine -- the lamp was too low to shine on the work properly-;
so I placed a few books under it to raise-; I was sewing on
intently -- not noticing the lamp-; the shaking of the machine
gradually carried the lamp to the edge of the books, and it fell
over - as it went down, it struck the table of the machine,
and the whole bottom of the lamp was knocked off-, and almost
all the kerosene spilled in wife's lap-, she was sitting on the
opposite side of the machine, the lamp fell at her feet still |
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