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This passes with the return of breath and circulation. But the clammy sweat continues pouring from every point of the surface saturating the garments next the skin as if they had been dipped in a tub of water. Presently our patient begins to suffer an intolerable thirst, and runs to the ice-pitcher to quench it. In vain. He can not retain a mouthful.
As soon as he comes near enough go and help." The men stood listening; and then, as they heard the coming steps, made a dart in, but returned. "You can't breathe. It chokes you," cried Billy Widgeon. "Take a long mouthful, my lad, and hold your breath," growled the boatswain. "Ha, he's down! Come on!"
"They don't want us to eat these, surely, for our luncheon?" "They do, though," said Mr McRitchie. "They are the edible fungi. Just take a piece; the people hereabouts eat them largely." Jerry on this took a large mouthful, but spat it out, declaring that he would just as soon eat shoe-leather. I ate a small piece, but thought it tasted very insipid, and not very digestible.
"Just set the tray down anywhere," she continued, packing ostentatiously, "and if I get time and feel like it, I'll eat a mouthful." And Peggy departed, relieved by her sincere conviction that no one in the cottage would go to bed without a satisfactory evening meal.
They had been strong, as those are strong who know neither doubts nor hopes. They had been impatient and enduring, turbulent and devoted, unruly and faithful. Well-meaning people had tried to represent those men as whining over every mouthful of their food; as going about their work in fear of their lives.
But at the second mouthful, she burst out crying, and could not swallow it. The king heard her sobbing. Glad of anybody, but especially of his queen, to quarrel with, he clashed his gold sovereigns into his money-box, clapped his crown on his head, and rushed into the parlour. "'What is all this about? exclaimed he. 'What are you crying for, queen?
Very silently the boys each approached a cottage, and inserting their pea-shooter in the keyhole, fired a whole mouthful of peas at the glass face of the old-fashioned eight-day clock, with which each cottage was furnished.
Throwing aside a rough great-coat, the intruder very composedly proceeded to allay the cravings of an appetite which appeared by no means delicate. But at every mouthful he turned an unquiet eye on Harper, who studied his appearance with a closeness that was very embarrassing.
I give de last to Missie Alice, and she not know I go all de time without any." "Of course, my lad, of course," answered the mate, filling a cup from the cask. "We must be careful of it; but I know what you are feeling, and there would be no use in giving you just one mouthful." Nub drank the water, and, heaving a sigh as he smacked his lips, he exclaimed, "Dat is delicious!"
She thanked him, and drank a mouthful or two before perceiving that it had been tampered with. "There's something in it," she said hurriedly. "So there is, my pet," said the captain, with a benignant smile, "a little nectar, that will do you more good than all the tea. Come now, don't shake your head, but down with it all, like a good child."
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