Too Much Imagination

Well-known oases ore on record wnere imaginatioH produoed sickiicss and evcu death without my real disease. In 'iidemics imagiiiiitLon, eaoitdng feaw, oftoi multiplies tho numbet oí' fatal cases. Sir Walter Soofct waa fond of telling u story, wIhti! tbc íacta cani'1 williin bis pcrsauíil kiowlecigé. A batid iniin' waa persualded I tbat tlio ground over which he was w;ik fnll of adders: He wan greatly alannrd, and bood tlumnht ho feit oi'ie ín lij boot. Ho struok vioUmtly at the boot with a stick in his hand to kill the reptil. Ah ho Ktruck hard, ho was certain he heard the adder liiss, and, exeited almont to ÉeWöt, ho lii'jit pelting away at the boot. till the anklo wis sore from the pouriflíng. Stopping at last li-oiii Bheer i'Nliaustion, aud listtuiiiiK, 11'1, said, "Ah ! now he is süént. 1 think I have dono foi hiui," and pullod off hisboot. WhatwashiK surprise and chafan n at flndisg that thr aildcr was liis watch, which had slippcd down iuto his boot, and the breaking of the spring' waa the only liiss he 'hi'ard. It may be hopêTI thai he learned n good leason, mi.I did not yicld agio I" Ldle teaxu without iör quir'iug if there wnsany (Ml éfÓÊÜOU lot iüatn,