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Oh! bad luck to him, he's biting me! Oh! oh! it's sure a sarpint that's stinging me! quick, sir, or he'll be the death o' me!" Phinn was frantic, and upon lowering his inexpressibles we found the centipede about four inches long which had bitten him. A little brandy rubbed on the part soon relieved the pain. An exceedingly active Moorman, who was my great ally in hunting.
Edward Twisleton, chief commissioner of the poor laws in Ireland. He married, in 1852, Ellen, daughter of the Hon. What agreeable people! For a wonder we shot there on the 10th, and killed 140 head. January 12th. We had a dinner at home Trevelyan, just appointed governor of Madras, Phinn, Baron Martin, Huddleston, W. Harcourt, Merivale, and Henry Brougham. From Lord Brougham Cannes, January 3rd.
More than thirty years have passed since the festive evening described by Sir George Trevelyan in The Ladies in Parliament: "When, over the port of the innermost bin, The circle of diners was laughing with Phinn; When Brookfield had hit on his happiest vein. And Harcourt was capping the jokes of Delane."
The bite of the small species of centipede alluded to is not very severe, being about equivalent to a wasp's sting. I have been bitten myself, and I have seen another person suffering from the bite, which was ludicrous enough. The sufferer was Corporal Phinn, of H.M. Fifteenth Regiment.
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