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"No offence, sir," said the agriculturist, "but is anything the matter wi' yer?" "No," answered S "What makes you ask?" "Yer hain't lame, are yer?" "Lame! Good gracious, no!" "You hain't 'ad a misfortune in any way? The sciatics or lumbager, that's kind o' laid yer by?" "No, I'm as well as I have always been." "An' yer call yerself a man and can sit theer a doin' o' that. Well, I'm d d!"
All green and oozy like a stone under water, poor Demi looked as if sore harassed with sciatics and lumbagos. But he was cheered from aloft, by the promise of receiving a garland all blooming on his crown; the Dryads sporting in the woodlands above, forever peeping down the cleft, and essaying to drop him a coronal.
Of the pursuivants, these worthies asked audience of Media. "Go, kneel at the throne," was the answer. "Our knee-pans are stiff with sciatics," was the rheumatic reply. "An artifice to keep on your legs," said the pursuivants. And advancing they salamed, and told Media the excuse of those sour- looking varlets.
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