During the rest of the day every friend and relative Uncle Peter
had in the world rushed in, suggested a couple of prescriptions,
and then rushed out again.

Aunt Martha tried them all on Uncle Peter.

Before the shades of evening fell that day Uncle Peter was turned
into a human medicine chest.

And to make matters worse, he took some dogberry cordial and it
chased the catnip tea all over his interior from Alpha to Omaha.

Then Aunt Martha gave him some hoarhound candy to bite the
dogberry, so it would leave the catnip alone, but blood will tell,
and the hoarhound joined with the dogberry and chased the catnip up
Uncle Peter's family tree.

But it cured the cold. Now all Uncle Peter had to do was to cure
the medicine.




CHAPTER VI.

JOHN HENRY GETS A SETBACK.

Dinner was nearly over that evening at Uncle Peter's villa in
Ruraldene when suddenly the doorbell rang violently and two minutes