31.  "\

32.  When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.

33.  "I'm all right, " he said.

34.  When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.

35.  I asked him.

36.  The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, he explained.

37.  He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees.

38.  He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on.

39.  I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; but I could see he was not following what I was reading.

40.  I asked him.