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 "I did. I gave it a fair trial,—and it didn't work."

"Did you see your practitioner often?"

"Practitioner? Why, I didn't have a practitioner."

"But you have read the text-book?"

"Only a little,—I can't understand it. No, I just thought I'd see what I could do with Christian Science myself."

"Well, you say you 'used it'; how did you use it?"

"Why, I told you;—I didn't take any medicine or do anything."

"And was that all?"

"Yes, only I tried to think I didn't have a cold."

"And you call that using Christian Science?"

"Yes. What do you call it?"

"Well, if you want my honest opinion, I should call it a perfectly idiotic proceeding."

The front legs of my chair came down with a thud. "Isn't that what you do?" I said; and it sounded pointedly accusing, the way I said it.

"Not by a long chalk," said Uncle Rob. "Now, look here, Chet, suppose you had been living on an entire meat diet, nothing else but meat,