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Show 151. CHAPTER X. B i l l hear^ Sunny axid Olaf get up and leave to go a f t er t h e bear soon a f t e r he'd gone to bed. He s l e p t l a t e and xras axrakened by L i t t l e B i l l . His voice sounded d i f f e r e n t - t h i n and holloxr and xrith alarm Bill saxr t h a t he res s i t t i ng in the corner of his bed instead of burroxrcB doxm in his blank e t s to keep xrarm. The a i r xras cold in the cabin. Sunny and Olaf hadn't stopped to light the f i r e . Bill jumped up and pulled, his xrarm blanket off his bunk and draped i t around L i t t l e B i l l. B i l l quickly made the f i r e and xrent back to B i t t l e B i l l. Bis face xras flushed xrith fever- Bill opened his l a s t can of milk, picked up L i t t l e B i l l , s a t xrith him close to the open oven door and offered him more of the milk than he'd planned t o feed him a l l ^i-j. He sxralloxred the sxreet mixture, but froxmed when he sxralloxred, and B i l l knexr he had the sickness f i r s t Weasel and then he had had. ^ow xrould he ever get him t o swallow the b i t t e r quinine. Bill f i n a l l y poured a l i t t le of the precious milk i n t o a t i n cup, put a l i t t l e honey in i t, and boiled i t doxm u n t i l i t looked almost l i k e candy- Then he took a piece of a qixinine p i l l , rolled i t l i g h t l y in i t, and put L i t t l e B i l l on his back on the t a b l e . Bill opened his |