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I goes to the biggest lawyer there, and I says to him, 'Salviated by merkery, you hear me, salviated by merkery. And he winks at me, and he goes to the judge, and he sez, 'This yer unfortnet man isn't responsible, he's been salviated by merkery. And he brings witnesses; you comes, Tommy, and you sez ez how you've seen me took bad afore; and the doctor, he comes, and he sez as how he's seen me frightful; and the jury, without leavin' their seats, brings in a verdict o' justifiable insanity, salviated by merkery."
I sez to him, 'Salviated by merkery, a year's standin', how much? He sez, 'Five thousand dollars, and take two o' these pills at bedtime, and an ekil number o' powders at meals, and come back in a week. And I goes back in a week, cured, and signs a certifikit to that effect." Encouraged by a look of interest in Tommy's eye, he went on. "So I gets cured.
It's pizen, quicksilver pizen. That's what's the matter with me. I'm salviated! Salviated with merkery. "I've heerd o' it before," continued Johnson, appealing to the boy, "and ez a boy o' permiskus reading, I reckon you hev too. Them men as works in cinnabar sooner or later gets salviated. It's bound to fetch 'em some time. Salviated by merkery." "What are you goin' to do for it?" asked Tommy.
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