We had to carry him in a chair up to the hotel.

And the Boscastle doctor--it wasn't the present chap, but the G.P.

before him--was at him until nearly two, with me and the landlord holding lights and so forth." "Do you mean--he was stiff and hard ?" "Stiff!--wherever you bent him he stuck.

You might have stood him on his head and he'd have stopped.

I never saw such stiffness.