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was a guttural ru, which seemed to come froel co the bed with a frightened

look, though she tried to put on a placid sy head turned on its pillow

"Hello and so you are; in spite of that old witch saying for the last

hour that you couldn't 'acome yet Come here, ot one hand, you see, to shake with

you"

"Yes, uncle, and to throw books at h, which deepened the colour in the old

to have a fit,

hastened to say so

"I came as soon as I could, uncle We were so sorry to hear of your

accident How did it happen?"

"The Lord knows, my dear, Ay don't, for Ay've walked up that street

four or five times every day the last faive years, and never done such

a thing afore But there--" and he began to gurgle again, to Val to everything, so Ay slipped

on a d--d stone, so, and sprained s,an old ain?"