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Temuka Leader, Issue 1794, 25 September 1888, Page 4

WHY HE DID NOT QU TO THE HOSPITAL. HE COULD LEAP THROUGH THE AIR. My object in writing is twofold : to express my gratitude for a great benefit, and to tell a short story which cannot' fail to interest the feelings of many others. It is all about myself, but I have remarked that when a man 1 tells the honest truth about himself he is all the more likely to boot uie tohis fellow creatures. To begin, 1 then, 1 you must know I had been long more or less subject to attabks of bronchitis, a complaint that you are aware is very common and troublesome in Great Britain in certain seasons of the year. Bone months ago I had a very severe turn of it, worse, I think, than : I ever had before. It was probably brought otf'by my catching cold, as we are all apt to do when we least expect it. Weeks passed by. and my jtrouble proved to be very obstinate. It would not yield to medicine, and as I also began to have violent racking pains in my limbs and back 1 became greatly alarmed.' 1 could neither eat nor sleep. If I had been a feeble, sickly man, I should have thought less strangely of it; but as, on the contrary, I was hearty and robust, I feared some new and terrible thing had got bold of me, which might make my strength of no avail against it. I say, that was the way I thought. Presently I could not even lie down for the pain all over my body. I asked my doctor what he thought of my condition, and he frankly said, “ I am sorry to have to tell you that you are getting”worse 1” This so frightened my friends, as well as myself, that they said “ Thomas, you must go to thb Hosbitais it may bb youk only Ohanob bob Lifb!”