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There were twelve nice little black balls in my hand when Jem came back with the pill-box. "Hooray!" I cried; "but knock out all the powder, it might smother them. Now, give it to me." Jem danced with delight when I put the wood-lice in and put on the lid. "I hope she'll shake the box before she opens it," I said, as we replaced it on the dressing-table. "I hope she will, or they won't be tight.
As for him, all appeared to be fish that came to his net spiders and beetles, slugs and snails from the damp corners, flies, and wood-lice found on turning up the large stone, disappeared one after the other.
A few score years ago, sick people were made to swallow burnt toads and powdered earthworms and the expressed juice of wood-lice. The physician of Charles I. and II. prescribed abominations not to be named. Barbarism, as bad as that of Congo or Ashantee. Traces of this barbarism linger even in the greatly improved medical science of our century.
He returned the wood-lice to his pocket except one, which he held between a finger and thumb laid thoughtfully against his lip. "Want wopses now. You get 'em for me." William roused himself from his bewilderment. "How how do you catch 'em?" he said. "Wings," replied Thomas. "Get hold of their wings an' they don't sting. Sometimes they do, though," he added casually. "Then your hands go big."
"They will multiply inside me," said poor Miss Frost. "Oh, what is to be done? Can a doctor be summoned at once?" "I am sure there can be no danger," said poor Lady Jane; "but it was a wicked trick to play, Irene. But I believe wood-lice are harmless, and I suppose they are dead. Still, Irene, your conduct is disgraceful. You are really past bearing."
"Yes, by adopting a homoeopathic pharmacopoeia which still makes use of the foulest matter the extract of wood-lice, the venom of snakes, the poison of the cockchafer, the secretions of the skunk and the matter from pustules, all disguised in sugar of milk to conceal their taste and appearance; the world of letters, in the same way, triturates the most disgusting things to get them swallowed without raising your gorge.
When the young ones come out from their nest, they run about over the plant like diminutive wood-lice, and at this period there is no apparent distinction between male and female. Shortly after being hatched the males seek the underside of the leaves, while the females prefer the young shoots as a place of abode.
I found a lot of the dear little wood-lice in the garden this morning, and it suddenly darted through my mind that they could be swallowed just like pills. So I put them into a box and rattled them well, and brought them to Frosty, and opened the box and said to her, 'Here, Frosty, here are your digestive pills; and she had swallowed two before she found out what she had done.
Kind actions!" said Irene. "In future I believe they will be kind. Now, please understand you have been exceedingly cruel to Miss Frost." "I want her to go." "She is not going." "How do you know? I did think those wood-lice would finish her. I thought and thought, and the happy idea came to me this morning. I was quite certain she'd give notice, just as Carter did.
"She brought me my pills as usual this morning you know I am ordered pills for indigestion and after I had swallowed them she announced that she had changed them for wood-lice, which curl up as you touch them." "It was such fun!" laughed Irene. "Oh, Frosty, Frosty, it was delicious!" "But what a wicked thing for you to do, Irene!" said her mother.
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