CHAPTER XIV.
BROTHERLY LOVE FAILS, AND IDEAS ABOUND.
During those strenuous, unresting years, included between 1829 and 1836, Garrison had leaned on his health as upon a strong staff.

It sustained him without a break through that period, great as was the strain to which it was subjected.

But early in the latter year the prop gave way, and the pioneer was prostrated by a severe fit of sickness.

It lasted off and on for quite two years.

His activity the first year was seriously crippled, though at no time, owing to his indomitable will, could he be said to have been rendered completely _hors de combat_.
Almost the whole of 1836 he spent with his wife's family in Brooklyn, where his first child was born.