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A renewed search was instituted for a deaf and dumb boy, and one was found "the son of a poor woman" and in the month of January, 1794, Mrs. Meves procured passports, and proceeded with this boy and a German gentleman to Holland to the Abbé Morlet. From Holland the Abbé, the boy, and Mrs.
Morlet, for he had taken radiographs of all our fractures, and of many others of our cases. We went to see him one Sunday afternoon at his beautiful house in the Avenue Plantin. He also had partly converted his house into a hospital for the wounded, and we saw twenty or thirty of them in a large drawing-room.
We found Pistre making a careful toilet with the aid of a tin pail full of water. "This is a surprise, on my soul!" We hastened to give him news of his family and friends. Presently he turned towards Nourrigat. "How about your regiment? Stationary?" "I fancy so. We were pretty well thinned out. We're waiting for reinforcements." "What's become of Chenu, and Morlet and Panard?"
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