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"Oh, this ain't Richard," sez I. "He ain't got epolepsy nor insanity; he's just stingy an' stupid." "How do you know he ain't got epolepsy?" sez Bill. "'Cause he don't bark like a dog nor froth at the mouth, nor he ain't afraid o' water," sez I. "You're thinkin' o' hydrophobia," sez Bill. "Epolepsy is sort o' fits." "Well, by gum, he did have one fit!" sez I. "What kind?" sez Bill.
Well, when you got seated, the thought came into my mind that maybe, highwayman as you were, you would not like dying a natural death, more particularly if you were an Irishman; and so I trumped up that long story about the hydrophobia, and the gentleman's thumb, and devil knows what besides; and, while I was telling it, the cold perspiration was running down my head and face, for every time you stirred, I said to myself, now he'll do it.
"My dear," he said, "if a tiger with hydrophobia were loose among a lot of decent people or indecent ones, for the matter of that you would not feel it your duty to be very sorry if, in springing on a group of them, he impaled himself on an iron fence. Don't reproach yourself too much." And, though the realism of the picture he presented was such as to make her exclaim, "No!
"We're going to set up a drinking fountain in the business square," Fanny explained. "The men of this town have the hotel but the horses never did have a decent trough of clean water. And we're going to have a little low place fixed so's the dogs can get a drink too. This is to prevent hydrophobia.
Musket-balls, therefore, could not have been the cause of the deaths we witnessed. And if, like contagion, they were not palpable to the senses, such a person might go on to affirm that no proof existed of there being any such thing as musket-balls." Now let the student turn back to the chapter on Hydrophobia in the same volume.
"Can't say as to that," replied Wesley Tiffles, "but advise you to keep shy of him for the future, I was about to say that he bit me through the leg of my trowsers. And on that very instant, as if by inspiration, I caught not the hydrophobia, but a magnificent idea. Having got on my pins, I kicked the dog into his front yard, and immediately worked the idea into shape. You'll be sure to like it."
"Have you come for them?" "We have. Complete with plague-cart. Allow me introduce my cousin. Dr. Fletcher Miss Madrigal Stukely. How are the deceased?" "Flourishing," replied the leech. "I took eleven out of your sister." "And fourteen out of Berry that's twenty-five. I say, there's no chance of their getting bee hydrophobia, is there? And stinging us, or anything?"
Hydrophobia is one thing, and hydrophobiaephobia is another.
The young gentleman accordingly delivered the key, and once more withdrew into his own chamber, with a view of seizing the first occasion that should present itself of renewing his application to his Amanda's door; while the doctor, in his way to Pellet's apartment, hinted to the governor his suspicion that the patient laboured under that dreadful symptom called the hydrophobia, which he observed had sometimes appeared in persons who were not previously bit by a mad dog.
An order had recently been issued that all stray dogs should be killed, and we saw many lying dead on the road. A great number had lately gone mad, and several men had been bitten and had died in consequence. On several occasions hydrophobia has prevailed in this valley. It is remarkable thus to find so strange and dreadful a disease appearing time after time in the same isolated spot.
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