Sasi cannot last through the night. These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.

'Thou shouldst a' married, Jock,' said I. He gurgled in his cup and set it down; his good eye turned upon us, twinkling. "'And where's the maid would look on boss-eyed Jock?' he said.

In the sanitary-ware potteries of Trenton, and in the general-ware potteries of East Liverpool, the glost-kiln men simply place the glazed ware in saggers, and therefore the only exposure to lead comes from getting their hands smeared with the glaze.

We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.