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subsided for the day, but the next day she began again.  I told her I didn't know anything about it, and I tried to account for the two separated bits of mercury which were lodged high in the tube by telling her that it went high when her room heated up and then didn't drop with the other when she opened her window and let sudden cold in.  By the way she dropped it herself a year or two ago and it never has worked right since.  Well, she said that it was like that when she came back from her vacation too, and that she heated it then and so fixed