After this I never looked behind me."
This is a very common expression. What do people mean by it? Lot's wife looked behind ber and was changed into pillar of salt A locomotive driver in America looked behind him one day last summer and 80 didn't see an open drawbridge in: front: of him, - Hence wreck and great loss of life..A man in London failed to look behind him: and was rua down by.ahansom. What shall we do-as a rule? Look behind us or not?" 2 We introduce a man who says he never looked behind him—after a certain time, How are we to take his meaning? Why, by letting him explain it, Hle goes on to say thatin one day in February, 1890, he was suddenly seized with dizziness and pain in his head. Like all healthy People, under similar creumstancee, hedidu't now what to make of it. He says he felt strange and queer, he shivered as though the weather had suddenly turned cold, and then flushed with the heat as though it had turned hot again. What ailed him?
His doctor said he was attacked with infiuenza, and ordered him to bed. He went to bed.' A few days later the fever left. him, but the illness did not. It merely assumed. another form. His tongue looked like a piece of brown leather, and his skin and the whites of his eyes became yellow, like old parchment. We must all eat to live, but when this man tried to eat, the food went against him, and after he had swallowed it by main force, it caused such pain in the chest, side, and stomach that he wished he bad let it alone. Then his heart began to palpitate, and he says he felt low, languid, and tired. He had
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