85 2 Communication worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia. Back in the room I wrote the boy’s temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules. “Do you want me to read to you?” “All right. If you want to,” said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in bed and seemed very detached from what was going on. I read aloud from Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates; but I could see he was not following what I was reading. “How do you feel, Schatz?” I asked him. “Just the same, so far,” he said. I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely. the flu – inflúensa pneumonia – lungnabólga detached – hér: fjarlægur Howard Pyle’s Book of Pirates is a collection of tales about real and fictional pirates. It became very popular when it was published in the 1920s. Old Playfellows (1883), Briton Riviere (1840–1920)
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