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et * partook freely of it and who succumbed to its influence forgot all decency, acted like one mad, and ran ‘about naked. Father Damien states that the inhabitants "passed their time, when he first entered amongst them, by playing cards, dancing and drinking. Their clothes were filthy on account of the scarcity of-water, which had to come from a ereat distance. Many a time when he was visiting the afflicted he had to run outside for a _breath of pure air; and used to smoke tobacco in order -to take away from his clothing the obnoxious smell of the lepers. Father Damien lived at Molokai ten years before he contracted the disease, and suspected he had it some time before the physicians confirmed his fear. | It did not ‘dishearten him, and he kept on in his work in the same simple, saintlike way. | He was on very affectionate terms with the lepers, and we quote some of the names which he gave them, and which Mr. Edward Clifford published in an article writ- ten by him. Let it be remembered they are boys’ names: “Jane Peter, Henry Ann, Sit-in-the-Cold, The Rat-Eater, The Eyes-of-the-Fire, A Fall-from-a-Horse, Mrs. Tomp- kins, Susan, The Dead-House, The Window,” etc. Father Damien died in 1889. The lepers wailed long and sadly for him, but he had gone to that eternal land of rest, where “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” comirebooks ‘om