Rheumatism.2.Cramp.3.Gout.

4.
Leg weakness.5.Paralysis of legs.6.

Elephantiasis.
Next, diseases caused by parasites.
Then, injuries.
Lastly, miscellaneous.
I could add a still longer list of unclassified ills: Homesickness, fits, melancholia, corns, blindness from fighting too much, etc.
Now that I have learned to raise chickens, it is a hard and slow struggle to get any killed.

I say in an off-hand manner, with assumed nonchalance: "Ellen, I want Tom to kill a rooster at once for tomorrow's dinner, and I have an order from a friend for four more, so he must select five to-night." Then begins the trouble.

"Oh," pleads Ellen, "don't kill dear Dick! poor, dear Dick! That is Tom's pet of all; so big and handsome and knows so much! He will jump up on Tom's shoulder and eat out of his hand and come when he calls--and those big Brahmas--don't you know how they were brought up by hand, as you might say, and they know me and hang around the door for crumbs, and that beauty of a Wyandock, you couldn't eat him!" When the matter is decided, as the guillotining is going on, Ellen and I sit listening to the axe thuds and the death squaks, while she wrings her hands, saying: "O dearie me! What a world--the dear Lord ha' mercy on us poor creatures! What a thing to look into, that we must kill the poor innocents to eat them.