YOU NEVER USED TO
BE LIKE THAT."
_Margaret._ "HOW CAN I HELP IT, GERTY?--I'M WRITING A POPULAR NOVEL!"]
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TAKE CARE!
A SONG OF CONVALESCENCE AFTER INFLUENZA.
_BY AN IMPATIENT PATIENT._
AIR--"_Beware!_"
"I feel as well as well can be!"--
_Take care!_
La Grippe's deceptive dontcher see,
Beware! Beware!
Trust it not,
'Twill be fooling thee;
It's just three weeks since I was "down!"--
_Take care!_
"I'm wanted very much in town."
Beware! Beware!
Run no risk,
'Tis humbugging thee!
"_I_ feel all right,--as well as you!"--
_Take care!_
What feeling tells you is not true!
Beware! Beware!
Pneumonia waits
To be nipping thee!
"You Doctors are such funny chaps!"--
_Take care!_
We know the dangers of Relapse.
Beware! Beware!
Flout me not,
_I'm_ not fooling thee!
"Too long you pillow us and pill us!"--
_Take care!_
You don't half know that blarmed bacillus.
Beware! Beware!
Brave it not,
'Twill be flooring thee!
"The fever's gone, the aches seem vanished."
_Take care!_
They come back when you think 'em banished.
Beware! Beware!
Trust 'em not,
They'll be dodging thee!
"Oh, come, I say, look here, you know!"--
_Take care!_
Your pulse is yet two beats too slow.
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