Next day they comed and telled us he was found all par'lysed in his chair, an' he couldn't move nor speak.

From that time the doctors 'ud sometimes come from a long way off; they said as there was somethin' strange about his sickness.

I doaent know what they said, I niver seed him again.

There's part o' him lies i' the bed, an' the parish feeds him, an' the doctors they talk about him.

I niver seed him again sin' that night, but I knows what he said was true, an' there's many a man as 'as seed him anear me sin' that day.