I demanded, with a cry of grief, what had happened; all wished to speak at once, and it was with some difficulty I learned, that my dear wife, in descending the staircase, had been seized with a giddiness in her head, and had fallen down and injured herself so much, that she was unable to rise without assistance; she was now enduring great pain in her right leg and in her left foot.

"Ernest and I," added Fritz, "carried her without delay to her bed, though not without difficulty, for the staircase is so narrow; but she continued to get worse, and we did not know what to do." _Jack_.

I have rubbed her foot continually, but it swells more and more, as well as her leg, which I dare not touch, it hurts her so much.
_Ernest_.

I remember, father, that of the chests that we brought from the ship there is one unopened, which is marked "_medicines,"_--may it not contain something that will relieve mamma?
_Father_.

Perhaps it may, my son.