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We shall conclude these observations with a few remarks on what are termed patent medicines, nostrums, or quack medicines, and their boasted pretensions in general. There is, in fact, but one state of perfect health, yet the deviations from this state, and the general species of diseases are almost infinite.
The surest way to avoid this is not to see them at all; but go blindly by the cant of the hour. Race moutonuiere va! Sampson was indignant at finding that these gentry, after denouncing him for years as a quack, were pilfering his system, yet still reviling him.
"I'm afraid you'll be disillusioned over poor Septimus," she said, "but I shouldn't like you to take up anything you didn't believe in. What would be quite honest in another man wouldn't be honest in you." "That means," said Sypher, "you wouldn't like to see me going on dealing in quack medicines?" Zora flushed red. "It was at the back of my mind," she confessed.
"Perhaps they know, but I want to see some signs of it for myself. They may be only guessing. Anybody can do that, and one guess is as good as another." Then he found Mr. and Mrs. Quack, the Mallard Ducks, and their children in the pond of Paddy the Beaver and remembered that they never had come down from their home in the Far North as early in the fall as this. Mrs.
Now when you come to think of it, it would have been a far greater shame for the hunter to have killed Mr. and Mrs. Quack than for Reddy Fox to have done so. Reddy was hunting them because he was hungry. The hunter would have shot them for sport. He didn't need them. He had plenty of other food. Reddy Fox doesn't kill just for the pleasure of killing.
Beltrami attacked Pike ; Schoolcraft fleshed his pen in Beltrami; Allen, who accompanied Schoolcraft, afterward became his enemy and branded him as a geographical quack; Nicollet arraigned both Schoolcraft and Allen for incompetency; and so on. And now, at this late day, in a mild way tradition repeats itself. Your great original geographer, Mr.
Upon that point Average Jones meditated a moment. "Did you see this Spanish professor again?" he inquired presently. "Now that you speak of it, I didn't see him but the once." "Can you leave for Toledo on to-night's train?" "You're goin' to take the case, then?" the quack clawed nervously at his professional white whiskers. "What's your terms?" he demanded.
Besides these, I have a small pot of Mayerne's electuary in my bag, another of the grand antipestilential confection, and a fourth of the infallible antidote which I bought of the celebrated Greek physician, Doctor Constantine Rhodocanaceis, at his shop near the Three-Kings Inn, in Southampton-buildings. I dare say you have heard of him?" "I have heard of the quack," replied Hodges.
Quack eagerly, and it seemed to Peter that there was a wee bit of hope in her voice. "Did you happen to notice that just before the Laughing Brook joins the Big River it flows through a little swamp?" asked Sammy. Mrs. Quack nodded her head rapidly. "What of it?" she demanded. "Nothing much, only if I were you I would go down there after dark," replied Sammy. Mrs. Quack looked up at Sammy sharply.
It was the pleasure of a cat playing with the mouse, which it is about to devour, or of savages mocking the man who is about to run the gauntlet. He exulted in the contrast of this proud man's present confidence, and the humiliation which awaited him within the next few hours. The quack was an easy victim.
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