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[page 558] either stay out in the field and work in the hot sun or else I must be shut up all day." Then at the same time this man was trembling This was in the afternoon at 2 or 3 oclock I should say. My wife came to the door and saw this man trembling, sitting on the piazza steps. She says, "John, what is the matter with this man." I says to her, "he has been ^over worked in the heat of the sun." She says, "let me get some camphor to bathe your head." He was holding his hand up to his head. He says, "no, no, no." She just started to go and get it. The man sat there for some 5 or 10 minutes. I should say. Then he went and drew a pail of water and carried it into the field for the rest of the patients and farm help who were hoeing potatoes at that time That was in June, I should say the latter part. And that was the last I saw of the man at that time. But I had seen him frequently at work in the hay field in the hottest days of the season.