slight but constant tickling in her throat. Accompanying these
symptoms was a pale anxious face and a general feeling of lassitude.

"I feared all this, Amanda," said her mother, with manifest concern.

"It's only a slight cold, ma. And, anyhow, I don't believe it was
occasioned by going out last night, I was wrapped up so warm. I must
have got the bed-clothes off of me in the night."

"What to one is a slight cold, my daughter, is a very serious affair
to another; and you are one of those who can never take a slight
cold without shocking the whole system. Your pale face and your
evident debility this morning show how much even this slight cold,
as you call it, has affected you. That you have this cold is to me
no subject of wonder. You were well wrapped up, it is true, and your
feet protected. Still, your face was exposed, and every particle of
air you inhaled was teeming with moisture. From dancing in a warm
room, the pores of your skin were all opened, and the striking of
moist chilly air upon your face could hardly fail of producing some
degree of cold. The most susceptible parts of your body are your
throat and lungs, and to these any shock which is received by the
system is directly conveyed. You cannot take cold in your hand or
foot or face, or any other part of your body, without your breast
sympathizing;--that you are hoarse, and have a slight cough, then,
is to me in no way surprising."

Amanda tried to make light of this, but every hour she felt worse
and worse. Her hoarseness, instead of diminishing, increased, and
her cough grew more and more troublesome. Finally, she was compelled
to go to bed, and have the physician called in.--"Is there any