United States or Tajikistan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Saved my life by shooting a dog with a bottle of Daffy's elixir! 'And a bullet as well, Reuben, though I dare warrant the gossips will soon contrive to leave that detail out. It is a mercy the pistol did not burst. But what do you propose to do now, Master Saxon?
I had just fallen into a dream in which I saw Reuben Lockarby crowned King of England by Mistress Ruth Timewell, while Decimus Saxon endeavoured to shoot him with a bottle of Daffy's elixir, when in an instant, without warning, I was dashed violently from my horse, and left lying half-conscious on the stony track.
Our poor little pauper just mentioned is dosed with Daffy's Elixir, and somehow survives the drug. Princekin or lordkin from his earliest days has nurses, dependants, governesses, little friends, schoolfellows, schoolmasters, fellow-collegians, college tutors, stewards and valets, led captains of his suite, and women innumerable flattering him and doing him honour.
And of all things in this world, here is the neck of a bottle stuck in the brute's hide! 'Good heavens! I exclaimed. 'I remember. My dear mother packed a bottle of Daffy's elixir in the barrel of my pistol. 'And you have shot it into the bloodhound! roared Reuben. 'Ho! ho! When they hear that tale at the tap of the Wheatsheaf, there will be some throats dry with laughter.
'Not got a coral! said Miss Thorne, with almost angry vehemence. 'Not got a coral! How can you expect that he should cut his teeth? Have you got Daffy's Elixir? Eleanor explained that she had not.
Daffy's professional tape, and, without intimacy, there existed kindly relations between the two men. Neither had ever been in the other's house, but they had long met, once a week or so, at the Liberal Club, where it was their habit to play together a game of draughts.
He was dosed with various nostrums that held full sway in the nursery even until Federal days, "Daffy's Elixir" being perhaps the most widely known, and hence the most widely harmful. Advertisements of it frequently appear in the Boston News Letter and other New England newspapers of early date.
"Poisoned, Amelia!" said the old lady; "this language to me?" "He shall not have any medicine but that which Mr. Pestler sends for hi n. He told me that Daffy's Elixir was poison." "Very good: you think I'm a murderess then," replied Mrs. Sedley. "This is the language you use to your mother.
By the side of this old lady jingled a bunch of keys, securing in different closets and corner-cupboards all sorts of cordial waters, cherry and raspberry brandy, washes for the complexion, Daffy's elixir, a rich seed-cake, a number of pots of currant jelly and raspberry jam, with a range of gallipots and phials and purges for the use of poorer neighbors.
I made her give them Daffy's Elixir the first day; and it was the greatest mercy that I had some of Frederick's baby-clothes by me; for you know I had provided Susan with sets for one only, and really " Third Lady. "Of course one couldn't; and for my part I think your ladyship is a great deal too kind to these people. A little gardener's boy dressed in Lord Dawdley's frocks indeed!
Word Of The Day