The Archive · 1902

WAS IT A POISON SNAKE?

Sometimes John Garrett wou'd go from morning till wight without bite or sup. This was three or four years ago, Every morning he got up with a disagree-able, gauging prin in the stomach or abdomen—he ce Idn't quite locate it, but he felt it all the same. St li he Kept on working. He meant to see a doctor hut neglected it. Soa year ran away. By tha the complaint had got hold of, him as wild grape vine does of an old tree.

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