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three days the fever raged violently. Then,
under the careful treatment of their old
family physician, it was subdued. After
that she gradually recovered, but very
slowly. The physician said she must not
attempt again to work as she had done.
This injunction was scarcely necessary.
She had not the strength to do so.

““T don’t see what you will do, Mrs.
Mayberry,” a neighbour, who had often
aided her by kind advice, said, in reply to
the widow’s statement of her unhappy con-
dition. ‘ You cannot maintain these chil-
dren, certainly. And I don’t see how, in
your present feeble state, you are going to
maintain yourself. There is but one thing
that I can advise, and that advice I give
with reluctance. It is to endeavour to get
two of your children into some orphan asy-
lum. The youngest you may be able to
keep with you. The oldest can support
himself at something or other.”

The pale cheek of Mrs. Mayberry grew
paler at this proposition. She half sobbed,