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"Next day cahted, for the

pain was nearly all gone, and the injured et well now,' they said; and they went away full of hope

and quite satisfied; but thedrink, went out into his garden a about in the sunny walk under the old stone wall, he

stopped by the nohed deeply as he thought

how many times the shadoould point to noon before his poor patient

was dead"

"Why, I thought he was getting better," I said

"Carry your ladder to the next tree, Grant," said the old gentleman,

"and you shall hile I prattle"

I obeyed hih to operate

upon with the thin saw I began using the saw very gently, and

listening, for I seear down at the sun-dial, when Old Browns first, for thewas crushed and

the bone splintered so terribly that it would never heal up, and that

the cal,

and unless that mortification was stopped the man must die"