dy confined to his bed, and
groaning with pain, while his wife and Fanny and several of
the neighbors, were flying about, applying hot fomentations,
and a variety of liniments. (It is astonishing how many busy
feet one sick man can keep in motion.)

"I immediately sent for Dr. Goodrich, although Daddy's wife
mentioned to me in confidence, that a 'parcel of old women
were worth a dozen doctors who killed more than they cured;
and Daddy himself managed to gasp out, ''Tween you an' me,
Miss Tinknor a leetle good nussin is the most I need. Doctors
can't cure rheumatiz.'

"However, he looked forward very anxiously to the Doctor's
arrival. When he did come and prescribed the free use of
brandy, all of Daddy's prejudices were at once aroused, and
no persuasions could induce him to use 'the devil's pison
outside or in.'

"I believe had he been stretched upon the rack he would have
died rather than yield the point; for to the last, he adhered
firmly to his total abstinence principles, and at the
eleventh hour he entered his master's vineyard.

"It was beautiful indeed to witness the ministrations of
little Fanny. From the first of his illness she wept over and
prayed for him, and taught him, who had gone all his life
long a hungry prodigal, the way to his Father's house. I
never shall forget those lessons, which so sweetly fell from
her childish lips and the joy that beamed in her speaking
face, when Daddy at length appeared to have a clear
understanding of her teachings.

"''Tween you and me, Fanny, you've pinted straight this
time,' said he one day, after having listened a while to her
conversation. 'It's all plain now--I see my Father, I see my
elder brother, the Lord Jusus interceding for me--I see the
table spread, and I ain't had no hand in the spreadin of it.
He'll hev to reach down and take me jest as I am, and he'll
du it--I'm sartin of it, cause Fanny, you know it is said
_whosoever_. That are _whosoever_ is the _comprehendest_ word
in the hull Bible. Miss Peters pinted it out to the Honey,
and the Honey told me about it jest afore I started fur
Recta, and some how it went into one ear and out 'tother.
Howsoever, I could see the Honey was a heap changed by it,
though it don't take away nun of her pretty.--She was more
tenderer like, and when she spo