Wet feet--A command disobeyed--Dabbling in the water--Playing
on the ice--An unexpected adventure--Afloat on an ice-cake--A
consultation--Danger and alarm--Spectators--A call for help--A critical
situation--The rescue--Effects of the adventure--Feverish dreams--Strange
feelings--The doctor's visit--Lung fever--The Latin prescription--Oscar's
removal--He grows worse--Peevishness--Passing the crisis--Improved
behavior--Getting better--General rejoicings--Further improvement--Return
of a bad habit--Fretfulness and impatience--A dispute--First attempt to
sit up--Its failure--First day in an easy chair--The sweets of
convalescence--Danger of a relapse.


CHAPTER XIII.

GETTING WELL.

Hunger--An evil suggestion--First visit down stairs--Midnight
supper--Weakness and exhaustion--An ill turn--The doctor's visit--The
mystery explained--Contents of a sick boy's stomach--The doctor's abrupt
farewell--His recall--Promise of obedience--Punishment for
imprudence--Directions--Effects of the relapse--Slow recovery--The
menagerie procession--A wet morning--Disobedience--Exposure, and its
consequences--Reading--The borrowed book--The curious letter--Puzzles,
with illustrations--Guessing riddles--Oscar's treatment of Benjamin--His
present feelings towards him--Ella's copy of the letter--Oscar's growing
impatience--An arrival--Uncle John--The loggers--Cousins never seen--A
journey decided upon--Solution of riddles, conundrums, &c.