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Updated: May 29, 2025
"It's not a bad idea to learn early to believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see. If you had been taken snipe hunting oftener when you were young, it wouldn't hurt you any now. There are just about so many knocks coming to each of us, and we've got to take them along with the croup, chicken-pox, measles, and mumps."
Just another child in the world crying, dribbling, feebly trying to grasp the atmosphere; another child to cut its first tooth, with shrieks, to have whooping-cough, chicken-pox, rose rash and measles; another child to eat of the fruit of the tree; another child to combat and love and suffer and die. No, damn it, the matter was important. Doctor Mayson and his rosy face were unmeaning.
Most Englishmen will be content to say it is all rot and pass on. It is all of a piece with the preposterous Prussian history, which talks, for instance, about the "perfect religious tolerance of the Goths"; which is like talking about the legal impartiality of chicken-pox. He will decline to believe that the Jews were Germans; though he may perhaps have met some Germans who were Jews.
I'll prove 'tis the chicken-pox or eat the man that has it. So the cook the skipper havin' the eyes he had says he ain't afraid o' no smallpox, but he knows what'll come of it if the crew gets ashore. "'Ho, ho! cook, says the skipper. 'You'll go ashore along o' me, me boy. "The next day we laid a course for Poor Luck Harbour, with a fair wind; an' we dropped anchor in the cove that night.
Fall and winter are the seasons of roup, while it is poorly housed and poorly fed flocks that most commonly suffer from this disease. Flocks that have become thoroughly roupy should be disposed of and more vigorous birds secured. The open front house has proved to be the most practical scheme for the reduction of this disease. Chicken-Pox, Gapes, Limber Neck.
Happy is it for mankind that the appearance of the small-pox a second time on the same person, beyond a trivial extent, is so extremely rare that it is looked upon as a phaenomenon! Indeed, since the publication of Dr. Heberden's paper on the Varicellae, or chicken-pox, the idea of such an occurrence, in deference to authority so truly respectable, has been generally relinquished.
Blue Bonnet passed out into the wings where Wee was giving instructions right and left. "Oh, Wee," she said, "I'm scared to death! I believe I'm threatened with stage fright. Do you know how it comes on? Feel my hands." She laid an icy lump in Wee's warm palm tremblingly. "Absurd!" Wee said. "Did you think you caught it like measles or chicken-pox?" "I think it's caught me, Wee.
In order to cheer myself I gave a little dinner-party at the club, and the function might have been a depressed wake with my corpse in a coffin on the table. My sisters, dear, kind souls, follow me with anxious eyes as if I were one of their children sickening for chicken-pox. They upbraid me for leaving them in ignorance, and in hushed voices inquire as to my symptoms.
"I was a cub on the 'News' then," said Wayne. "And I remember there were a lot of deaths from chicken-pox that year. I didn't suppose people that is, grown people died of chicken-pox very often: not more often, say, than they die of malaria where there are no mosquitoes." "Suspicion is one thing. Fact is another," said Dr. Surtaine decisively.
And do you remember how we played it on the professor, and made him believe that I had the chicken-pox? O, gentlemen, a glorious immortality awaits you beyond the grave for lying me out of that scrape."
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