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The best part of this report will be that that is never written, except on the hearts and in the lives of the poor chaps who will think of the Lady of Kuskinook any time they happen to be saying their prayers." "Tell me, Dick, what shall I say?" "Begin with the statistics. Typhoids, so many " "What an awful lot there were, two hundred and twenty-seven of them!" "Yes," replied Dick.
After this event I was sent back for a time to the blessés graves on the surgical side on day duty. All who had been on duty that memorable night had had a pretty considerable shock. It was like leaving one world and stepping into another, so complete was the change from typhoids.
There will be diseases, too; typhoids from the disturbed drainage and insufficient water-supply; eye troubles, caused by the swarms of flies and tons of accumulated dust. The ruins are also overrun with hordes of mangy cats and dogs which ought to be exterminated without delay.
Nursing in the typhoids was relieved by turns up to the trenches behind Dixmude, which we looked forward to tremendously, but as they were practically with slight variations in the matter of shelling and bombardments a repetition of my first experience, there is no object in recounting them here.
But her answer was to retort that rats carried bubonic plague, and to exit, carrying the sugar-bowl. I was ravenous, as are all convalescent typhoids, and one of the ways in which I eked out my still slender diet was by robbing the sugar-bowl at meals.
There, near those confines, the haunt of aberrations and of sickness, of the mystic lockjaw, the warm fever of lust, and the typhoids and vomits of crime, he had found, brooding under the gloomy clock of Ennui, the terrifying spectre of the age of sentiments and ideas.
The next night our plight in typhoids was not one to be envied Army blankets had been stretched inadequately across the windows and the beds pulled out of the way of draughts as much as possible, but do what we could the place was like an icehouse; the snow filtered softly through the flapping blankets, and how we cursed the Hun! At 3 a.m. one of the patients had a relapse and died.
"You are a good deal better off on this board floor than most of the typhoids in the camps, and we will do the best we can. Shall I let your people know?" "No," the young fellow said slowly, his weak, white face endeavoring to restrain the tears. "The old man is in a bad place Uncle Brome, you know and I guess if it hadn't been for my damn foolishness in New York "
A large hut hospital for typhoids was built and the casualties diminished, partly because most of the Belgians had already been killed or wounded, and partly because the remaining few had not much fighting to do except hold the line behind the inundations.
Another!" The undertaker grinned. "I'm about used up from gittin' robbed of my rest," complained the grave-digger. "This night-work ain't to my taste." "It's no use kickin'; you know what Lamb says that these daylight buryin's makes talk amongst the neighbors." "Should think it would," retorted the grave-digger, "with them typhoids dyin' like flies." "I thought of a joke, Lem."
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