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Every third person is a pet patient sending for him for a gnat-bite, gratis, taking the bread out of Wright's mouth. No wonder Henry Ward kicked! If I came here, I must practise on the lap-dogs! Here's my father, stronger than any of us, with fifteen good years' work in him at the least!
Poisonous, I agree, if by that we understand that the animal is armed with two fangs which cause the immediate death of the little victims which it catches; but there is a wide difference between killing a Midge and harming a man. However immediate in its effects upon the insect entangled in the fatal web, the Spider's poison is not serious for us and causes less inconvenience than a Gnat-bite.
Parker from his cushion having had a suggestion on his part, on the treatment of the gnat-bite, passed over in silent contempt he has retired from the circle in dudgeon. "This is lively, is not it?" he says, in an aggressively loud voice, as if he were quarrelsomely anxious to be overheard. I say "Hush!" apprehensively.
Algy has left his corner and his reversed picture-book, moved thereto by the unparalleled audacity of young Parker, who has pulled one of the sofa-cushions down on the floor, and is squatting on it, like a great toad at her feet, examining a gnat-bite on her sacred arm. Even the old host is doing the agreeable according to his lights.
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