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near Iier doors, and she was experienced, above all other cities on the

Driver, in the gracious office of the Good Samaritan.

The sight I saw when I entered that large hall was new and

strange to me. Two long rows of prostrate forms—more than forty,

in all—and every face and
head a shapeless wad of loose
raw cotton. It was a grew-

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THE HOSPITAL WABD.

some spectacle. I watched there six days and nights, and a very
melancholy experience it was. There was one daily incident -which
was peculiarly depressing : this was the removal of the doomed to
a chamber apart- It was done in order that the morale of the
other patients might not be injuriaasly afiected by seeing one of