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Switzer for saving you a lot of trouble, Mr. Sneed." "Humph! It's a funny thing to be thankful for because someone washes your face with snow," declared the grouchy actor. It was two days later before Russ had time to carry out his plan of "filming the faker," as he referred to it. Then he and Paul, with Ruth and Alice, went to the two cabins.
It was awkward for Faker, but he had to confess that he was not sure.
One of the cardinal groups of symptoms in a neurasthenic is this fear of serious bodily disease for which he seeks examination and advice constantly. Naturally enough, he becomes the choicest prey for the charlatan, the faker, or perhaps ranks second to the victim of venereal or sexual disease.
One day as Burton and I were wandering about on the fair grounds we came upon a patent medicine cart from which a faker, a handsome fellow with long black hair and an immense white hat, was addressing the crowd while a young and beautiful girl with a guitar in her lap sat in weary relaxation at his feet.
He believed he was bringing a doctor in to cure the country's sickness, where all of his hopes were staked out in town lots, when he had brought only a quack. A hundred dollars, even if the faker made no more, was pretty good pay for seven days' work, they said. A dollar's worth of sulphur would cover his expenses.
Jim brought the horse out. It stood tamely enough to be saddled, with head drooping indifferently, and showed no deeper interest and no resentment over the operation of bridling, Jim talking all the time he worked, like the faker that he was, to draw off a too-close inspection of his wares.
He tells them that they are well or ill according to their desserts, that they can be well at all times, if they wish, for if they live as they should health is a natural consequence. This sounds like nonsense at first. It is different from anything else they have heard. The sufferer often makes up his mind that the healer is a fool or a faker.
"Well, it was a will, to tell you the truth, Mr. Hawkins, executed in my favour for £5,000." "Where is it?" "I have not the original," said the minister, "but I have a copy of it." "Copy! But where is the original?" "Original?" repeats Faker. "Yes, the original; there must have been an original if you have a copy." "Oh," said the Rev.
The girls told him, and when he heard that Merley was in the neighborhood, and apparently uninjured, Russ said: "I always thought that fellow was a faker. I'd like to know what his game was." "Do you think it is a game?" asked Alice. "Yes, and I think it's more of a game than the game they are after up here. I think they're hatching some plot."
But, serisly, I concluded to stop exhibitin', and made tracks for Baldinsville. My only daughter threw herself onto my boosum, and said, "It is me fayther! I thank the gods!" She reads the "Ledger." "Tip us yer bunch of fives, old faker!" said ARTEMUS, Jr. He reads the "Clipper." My wife was to the sowin' circle. I allus like to see people enjoy theirselves.
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