I had forgotten all about this, and as Elder Stenhouse read it to me "my feelings may be better imagined than described," to use language I think I have heard before.  I pleaded, however, that it was a purely burlesque sketch, and that this strong paragraph should not be interpreted literally at all. The Elder didn't seem to see it in that light, but we parted pleasantly. _______________ X. THE MOUNTAIN FEVER. I go back to my hotel and go to bed, and I do not get up again for two weary weeks.  I have the mountain fever (so called in Utah, though it closely resembles the old-style typhus) and my case is pronounced dangerous.  I don't regard it so.  I don't, in fact, regard anything.  I am all right, myself.  My poor Hingston shakes his head sadly, and Dr. Williamson, from Camp Douglas, pours all kinds of bitter stuff down my throat.  I drink his health in a dose of the cheerful beverage known as jalap, and thresh the sheets with my hot hands.  I address large assemblages, who have somehow got into my room, and I charge Dr. Williamson with the murder of Luce, and Mr. Irwin, the actor, with the murder of Shakspeare.  I have a lucid spell now and then, in one of which James Townsend, the landlord, enters.  He whispers, but I hear what he says far too distinctly: "This man can have anything and everything he wants; but I'm no hand for a sick room.  I never could see anybody die. " That was cheering, I thought.  The noble Californian, Jerome Davis--he of the celebrated ranch--sticks by me like a twin brother, although I fear that in my hot frenzy I more than once anathematised his kindly eyes.  Nursers and watchers, Gentile and Mormon, volunteer their services in hoops and rare wines are sent to me from all over the city, which, if I can't drink, the venerable and excellent Thomas can, easy. I lay there in this wild, broiling way for nearly two weeks, when one morning I woke up with my head clear and an immense plaster on my stomach.  The plaster had operated.  I was so raw that I could by no means say to Dr. Williamson, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant".  I wished he had lathed me before he plastered me.  I was fearfully weak.  I was frightfully thin.  With either one of my legs you could have cleaned the stem of a meerschaum pipe.  My backbone had the appearance of a clothesline with a quantity of English walnuts strung upon it.  My face was almost gone.  My nose was so sharp that I didn't dare stick it into other people's business for fear it would stay there.  But by borrowing my agent's overcoat I succeeded in producing a shadow.