CHAPTER X. FEVER AND AGUE.
In the course of two or three months, the fever and ague increasing in violence, and the attacks becoming more frequent, together with the hard and exacting work wliich required a strenuousness that I could not endure, I was compelled to leave the place or die. I naturally chose the former course and went home to the old farm. Having great faith in the old family physician, I thought he surely could cure me, but he utterly fafled to do me any good.