<em><u>and I saw blood everywhere and suddenly something jumped up from the Attic entrance , and I saw it was a snake , then I thought it was because of the blood , it tried to beat my leg , so I ran out of the Attic , little did I know that snake was a girl and she had given birth to children that surrounded the house before I could think of going I saw a lot of snake in the door side before I went I noticed a snake bite in my leg , before I could go to the hospital I already fainted in a bush. </u></em>
If sounds as if it refers to his aching agony within his situation. ¨Bear up, old heart! You´ve borne worse, far worse,¨ shows how everything is affecting him. This is his attempt to tell himself to stay strong in time of dispair.
