52 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS. saddle-bags stuffed with all sorts of me- dicines, the very thought of any of which would bring on a turn of nausea, were I to name it to you. He was a very good man in a sick room. That is—for this statement must be taken with a trifling limitation—he was patient, kind, watchful, a capital nurse, and alwayson the alert to see that the disease did not get the upper hand of his patient. As to the way he dosed and drugged the folks, that is an- other thing. The least that can be said of the quality and quantity of his reme- dies, is that they were not such as the homeopathic doctors would have ap-