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It is not that here, as in cases of catarrhal croup, the ailment has really come on suddenly, but that the disease has been silently making unsuspected progress.
"O," replied Prudy, snatching a kiss from her pouting lips, "if you've got the croup you certainly can't go." Dotty shook her curls. "Coop's went off now. Dotty'll go, all o' you." "O, no, little sister; you'll stay at home and look at your pictures. That's the way I did when I was little." "You mustn't contraspute," cried Dotty, shaking her elbows. "I is goin' to Sabber school."
"There must have been some gross mismanagement and fearful neglect, to bring on such an attack as this, to a child that has never been subject to croup, how she ever got into this state passes my understanding, you have been trying some of you foolish schemes I suppose." "Oh Louis, you know she was out in all that rain to-day" interposed Natalie meekly.
One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! 'She is won! we are gone over bank, bush and scaur! They'll have fleet steeds that follow, quoth young Lochinvar. That was a lover now!" "I think he was a most impertinent young man," said Wenna.
She had been sitting up with the baby, who had been suffering from a severe attack of croup. Hot water was wanted, and she started for the kitchen for the purpose of making a fire and putting on the kettle.
Oh, thou, my squire, pleasant companion in my prosperous and adverse fortunes, fix well in thy memory what thou shalt see me do here, so that thou mayest relate and report it to the sole cause of all," and so saying he dismounted from Rocinante, and in an instant relieved him of saddle and bridle, and giving him a slap on the croup, said, "He gives thee freedom who is bereft of it himself, oh steed as excellent in deed as thou art unfortunate in thy lot; begone where thou wilt, for thou bearest written on thy forehead that neither Astolfo's hippogriff, nor the famed Frontino that cost Bradamante so dear, could equal thee in speed."
The reader will remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the external tincture of iodine.
=Spasmodic Croup.= I have already tried to explain how, in early life, the brain is often unequal to control the sensitiveness of the nervous system to various sources of irritation from without, and how, in consequence this irritation manifests itself by those involuntary movements which we call convulsions.
He, too, had been dosed with hot tea by Aunt Alvirah, though he made a wry face over it. "Never you mind, boy," Ruth told him, laughing. "It is better to have a bad taste in your mouth for a little while than a sore throat for a week." "Hear! hear the philosopher!" cried Tom. "You'd think I was a tender little blossom." "You know, you might have the croup," suggested Ruth, wickedly. "Croup!
Cliff's belief that she must not long delay in selecting some sort of station in life, and endeavoring to live up to it, was soon strengthened by Willy Croup.
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