50 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

learning, even then, but kept looking
toward the spot where he had disappear-
ed from view.

“¢ And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew.”

I should judge that disease, at the
time and in the neighborhood of which
I am speaking, was considered as a sort of
a demon, that must be cast out of a poor
man at all hazards. ‘The doctor went
to work at his patient, as a priest of a
darker age would go to work at one sup-
posed to be possessed of a devil. To
get at the monster, and drive him out, it
was often necessary, in their view of the
case, to torment the patient with the