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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3036, 24 October 1888, Page 3

Why He Did Not Go to the /' • HospitalHE COULD LEAP~THItOOGH THE . AIR, My object 111 writing is two-fold: to expreas ray pralitudo for a groat benefit toll a ahort story which cannot interest tlio feelings ol many many others. It is all about myself, but I havo remarked that when a man tolls the honest truth about himsolf 110 is all the moro likely to bo of liso to his fellowcreatures. To begin, then, you must know I had long b«en more or less subject to attacks of bronchitis, a complaint that you are awaro is very common and ipublesomo in Great Britain in certain Ceisons of tho year. Somo months acq I wd a very eovero turn of it, worse, 1 think than I ever had boforo. It was probably brought ot) by catching cold, as wo arc all apt to do when we least oxpect it. Weekß passed by, and my trouble 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, I became greatly alarmed. I could noither oat nor sleep. If I had been a feeble, sickly man, I should havo thought less strangely of it; but as, on tho contrary, I was hearty and robust, I feared Bome now and torriblo thing had . got hold of me, which might make my strength of no avail against it. I say, that n°as tho way I thought. Presently I could not oven lio down for • tho pain oil over my body. I asked my' doctor what ho thought of my condition and 1m frankly said, "1 mn sorryjto havo tuiVjll you that you aro getting worse I" Tjpo frightened my friends, as well as tflf&f, that thoy said, " Tlwms, you must go to ihcEoipilal; U maij bc your Oiilij'clmefor lift!" "/■' But 1 djdu't want to go to tho Hospi< : tal. _ Wlo does' when no, thinks ho oan , possibly get along without dointr it} I am a laboriat! man with a large family dtpsadiog on •mt far tuppefy wd I