A week later I got word that my father was dead of an ague in the Low Countries, and I had to be off post-haste to Auchencairn to see to the ordering of our little estate.

She lay there quietly enough, neither speaking nor sobbingjust shaking in a very ague of fear.

"I was certainly injured;" he says of this adventure, "for I was weakly and subject to ague for many years after."

If any one contracts an ague by living in the moist plains, he is sure to recover his health by a few days residence in the mountains, which I Marco experienced in my own person after a whole years sickness.

Better marry a tertian ague than a fool, that's certain; there's one good day and night in that.

He or she who does so will be free from ague throughout the year, and the flax will grow as high as the young folks leap.

All melancholy are better after a quartan; Jobertus saith, scarce any man hath that ague twice; but whether it free him from this malady, 'tis a question; for many physicians ascribe all long agues for especial causes, and a quartan ague amongst the rest.

They talk of shady groves, purling streams, and cooling breezes, and we get sore-throats and agues with attempting to realise these visions.

At two o'clock he was able to sit in the chair by the window, with his fever greatly abated, and an hour later he was as free from all traces of the ague as you or I.

His diary gives the treatment: "Seized with an ague before 6 o'clock this morning after having laboured under a fever all nightSent for Dr. Craik who arrived just as we were setting down to dinner; who, when he thought my fever sufficiently abated gave me cathartick and directed the Bark to be applied in the Morning.

To be told that we ought not to agitate the question of Slavery, when it is that which is forever agitating us, is like telling a man with the fever and ague on him to stop shaking and he will be cured.