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South Canterbury Times, Issue 5015, 24 May 1889, Page 4

WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL. HE COULD LEAP THROUGH THE AIR.

My object in writing is two-fold : 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 tells the honest truth about himself he is all the more likely to bo of use to bis fellowcreatures. To begin, then, you must know I had long been more or less subject to attacks of bronchitis, a complaint that you are aware is very common and troublesome in Great Britian in certain seasons of the year. Some months ago I had a vqry severe turn of it, worse, I think, than !; »er had before. It was probably brought on oy my catching cold, we are all apt to do when we least expect it. Weeks passed by, and my trouble proved to be very obstinate. It would not yield to medicine, and as I also began (o have violent racking pains in my limbs and back, I became greatly alarmed. I 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 rotust, I feared some new and terrible thing had got hold of mo, 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