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"You ever thought him such a treasure!" said Gillian; "and now look at him as he stands by the side of a real gentleman, how he stares and trembles as if he were distraught." "I will speak to him," said Raoul, forgetting his lameness, and springing from his elevated station "I will speak to him; and if he be unwell, I have my lancets and fleams to bleed man as well as brute."
Finding, after much deliberation, that the poor animal, which they kicked and cudgelled to excess could not change the laws of nature, or afford them that which she did not possess, it was determined by her proprietor, that as she failed in supplying them with sufficient milk they should try the fleams, and have recourse to her blood, in order to eke out their support.
Another bamboo, of smaller dimensions, and hollow within, which is covered with varnish, almost as hard as steel, is employed in building Indian houses. Cut to a point it is extremely sharp, and is used for many purposes. The Indians make lances of it, and arrows, and fleams for bleeding horses, and lancets for opening abscesses, and for taking thorns or other things out of the flesh.
" Mister Francis, I desire to know the answer of Monsieur Barbérie's daughter." "Mam'selle no répond, Monsieur; pas un syllabe!" " Drenchers and fleams! The beauty should have been drenched and blooded " "He'm too late for dat, Masser, on honor." " The obstinate hussy! This comes of her Huguenot breed, a race that would quit house and lands rather than change its place of worship!"
And if I am to die, as I must, is it not better to have satisfaction for my sufferings'? Accordingly, me next morning when her owner went to get blood for their breakfast, it so happened that the cow thrust a horn into him, and he was found lying a corpse under her lifeless carcase the last drop of her blood having been expended under the final operation of the fleams.
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