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It's the meanest death there is, the bellyache an' cramps that comes from drinkin' poison water. Watch the horses. If they will drink it, we can. He led his horse to the pool into which the animal thrust his nose half way to the eyes.
Snake doctors, limber, long insects with bronze bodies and filmy wings, went back and forth like small living shuttles. Other buzzards passed and repassed, but the squire waited, forgetting the cramps in his elderly limbs and the discomfort of the water in his shoes. At length he heard the bell.
"Cramps," yelled Hal to Harry and Bert, while all three hurried to where the man's hand had been seen. But it did not come up again. "I'll dive down!" spluttered Hal, who had the reputation of being able to stay a long time under water. It seemed quite a while to Bert and Harry before Hal came up again, but when he did he was trying to pull with him a big, fat man, who was all but unconscious.
At last we both went to sleep with that uncomfortable slumber of the railway carriage, which is interrupted by horrible cramps in the arms and neck, and by the sudden stoppages of the train. We woke up as we were passing along the Rhone.
I have tried very hard to take an interest in the matter, but the numbness has returned. The oppression of the surroundings at Ledstone cramps my spirit. We have had several "parties" batches of Gurrage relations one or two really awful people. And some days ago I was bidden to write and invite the guests for the first big partridge drive.
"As a general thing, yes. The normal being is sleek by nature. It's only when he cramps himself that he gets wrinkled. Cramps himself, I say. Cramping from an outside source never has much effect upon him, unless he chooses to have it. No; that's not Christian Science; it's mere common sense. As a rule, the two things are incompatible.
"You can call it that if you wish. It was intense. I held it at arms' length, yet it made me sick and I had cramps for over an hour afterwards." "It would have killed you if you had placed it to your mouth or nose?" "Not the slightest doubt of it." "May I ask where you got the stuff?" "It was imported into this country by a drug firm merely as a curiosity.
That very night, all the headsman's apprentices were seized with cramps in the stomach, and if this was not caused by the quantities of sour wine which they had been drinking all day it was certainly due to the malpractices of the two hags. All this time the young wife was sitting in the upper story of the headsman's house, absolutely alone.
The hard brown paper between the cramps and their padded or corked ends prevents any injury to the varnish.
By rendering the colony produce dearer in all other countries, it lessens its consumption, and thereby cramps the industry of the colonies, and both the enjoyments and the industry of all other countries, which both enjoy less when they pay more for what they enjoy, and produce less when they get less for what they produce.
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