To this I replied:--

"DEAR WIGGLES,--Holding as you do the old pagan view of Providence, you are

quite right not to tempt it. The loss is mine. I hope you will soon be

rather less unwell."

Then I went away for three days without leaving an address, and when I

returned it was to learn that Wiggles had arrived on the previous evening.

And in my study I found him, together with four wires (two to say he wasn't

coming and two to say he was) and a table loaded with prescriptions.

He eats enormously.

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