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dreadful wrench took place.
Maud was very brave, but I know that she felt it as I did ....”
The next stop was at Spokane Falls.
Here she had “a bronchial attack; very hoarse and sore in my throat and chest.
Went over my lecture carefully, leaving out some pages.
Felt absolute need of tea-stimulant, and went downtown, finding some in a grocer's shop.
The good servant Dora made me a hot cup which refreshed me greatly.
Very hoarse at my lecture.
Opera House a good one enough; for a desk, a box mounted on a barrel, all covered with a colored paper; decent enough.
Lecture: ‘Polite Society’ ; well received.”
The Spokane of to-day may smile at the small things of yesterday; yet our mother always spoke with pleasure of her cordial reception there.
Walla Walla, Walula, Paser.
In the last-named place she “found a tavern with many claimants for beds.
Mrs. Isaacs, who came with me from Walla Walla for a little change of air, could not have a separate ”
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