The Archive · 1900

WAS HE FOLLOWED?

ring, yet his fear, or feeling, that his move-There was nobody following William Perments were being tracked made him shake like a dry leaf on atree. And so it would anybody. Nothing is more scaring than the thought of danger from secret enemies. Why, men have gone!mad over the mero dread of But Perring suppose he was followed; in truth he knew it couldn't be; his memory and his' conscience assured him of that. Here's the story; you can seo how matter were for yourself. Perring is a dock labourer; he lives at 45, Duke Street, Devonport, and is thirty-nine years old. Thathe is naturally a strong andheslthy man goes without argument; otherwise he wouldn't be a dock labourer sit isn't " calling for weak chaps, Well, up to April, 1899, he wasp toriiis work; sound in wind and limb, Then began to feel mean und stale. Ho says ho hada nasty tightness and heaviness about his chest, and his victuals settled down inside of him like 9 lump of lead in soft ground; and he took to having spolls-of heart palpitation that shook hi the engine shakes a ship when the screw kicks out of water, 1d, did poor Perring, to pull day's work and then got home and down on the sofa as quick as he: could, His supper was ready, but he had no use'for it, he couldn't eat.

In telling all this one di the 30th of 1899, it was—Porring said, " My body ached all over, and I got £0 nervous and irritable I couldn't bear to have my own children about me, I was that toueky and, I merely wanted to be let alone.

dually I got so bad that whoa out on the dock the idea would come into my head that I was followed, and I'd shake like a leaf.

"The doctor sail I was' suffering from indigestion, and that my nervoueriess "and weakness all came from that); but he wasn't able to help me.

"Then one of my mates said, Why don't you try Mother Seigel's Syrup It cured mo of the same thing."

"So I got a small bottle, anil it-did mo some good, and I thought if I kept on using it L might be a well man yet, Any way I resolved to give it a chance, "As I continued taking Mother Seigels' Syrup—and a gond mother' to lots of poor mafferers she is—I felt better and better. The tightness and weight at my chest went and I ate my food and enjoyed it to do.

"In all I took Mother Seigel's Syruy several weeks and then I stopped; and vow am as well as ever I was in my life.

Perring (good luck be with hu is down on the dock regularly on work days, and the only thing that "follows" him is the regret that his mate didn't shout out, " Mother Seigel's Syrup in the month of April, 1809, (2) 19, 26de'& 2a 273

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