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bothered him.

I am not going to stay about the house too much.  Tomorrow, I shall get to Cambridge and work for a while there.  I think I will stay a few days, as you said, altho at present there seems hardly any need for it.  I should like to see him in less worried, abject, down-and-out spirits.  He looks very dolefully on everything with perfectly keen insight into his condition.  He said that Monday morning "something happened, he can't tell what came over him."  He is so fussy about taking his medicine, drinks water when he thinks of it, asks as he starts to peel a banana if it is all right to eat.. and does everything he thinks he ought to.  Just now he has come to point out an article in the paper about E. Boothbay, a [[strikethough]] yatch [[/strikethrough]] yacht made by the Hodgton brothers, (one of them married Charlie D. Capins girl) so you see he is pretty keen.  Jack Wayland has called up, said he was coming up if it stopped raining, and Pa says he doesn't want him to talk to... he doesn't want anyone to see he is all laid up.  I tried to caution Jack by saying the quieter he kept the better, and devoutedly trust that it continues to pour cats & dogs all day & night.

Ma has worried herself sleepless & eats almost nothing.  She doesn't like asparagus, which she got for him, or spinach which I picked up in Mattapan, and isn't crazy over the vegetable diet anyhow.  I shall try to get Dr. Ewing to give her a little physical exam & perhaps prescribe some diet for her, -- her stomach bothers so.  We've got to keep her going anyhow. Jim is tending to the store, and I hope can keep it going after a fashion a while.