, as Mrs.
---- makes such good bread. Mr. ---- likes it better than
superfine. I have had boiled rice--a few meals. I had one
meal of bag-pudding--Indian--with a few whortleberries in
it.

"I have now given you an account of how I live. I eat at ten
or half-past ten, A. M., and at four, P. M. So I do not have
to go to bed with a meal of victuals on my stomach.

"After I left you, and before I came here, I had, all the
time, a great looseness of the bowels. It seemed to weaken
me. Afterwards I thought it was caused, partly, by some very
tart, dried apples, of which I ate freely at every meal.
Aunt ----thought it was working at hoeing up turf around
trees, for she said that working hard with her arms affected
her in that way. My stomach did not seem quite right.
Perhaps I strained it in coming home. The very next day
after I came here, I commenced eating the ripe strawberries
at meals, and have eaten them freely ever since. I sometimes
eat nearly a pint at a meal. From the first they have seemed
just the thing for me. They regulated my stomach and bowels,
and they have strengthened them ever since.

"I eat alone, and enjoy it capitally. I would not go back to
the Institution (the Hygiene establishment) for a great
deal, because there are so many things there to harass one's
mind, or tempt him, at every corner of the street and almost
every shop. Since I came here I have not tasted of any thing
between meals, and have had no inclination to do so. I think
there will be no trouble on that account.

"I am busy out of doors a good deal of the time. I have hoed
corn, piled cord-wood, driven team, picked strawberries,
etc. At night I milk one cow. I go barefooted three or four
hours in the middle of the day, use no flannels, dress very
thin,--as little as I can get along with.

"Do you wish me to learn to swim, if possible? There is a
pond--a natural one--about a mile from this place. Will you
not answer me soon, and give me your opinion on this and
other subjects?

"In love, yours, etc.

"SAMUEL."

About a month later, viz., July 18, he wrote thus:

"MY DEAR DOCTOR:--Five months and a half without a symptom!
I have not the slightest feeling to remind me of my old
attacks. Should I not be thankful?

"A