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"Am I to be left here in my old age, not a rational soul to speak to, and no other place in the village where there's a drop of decent punch to be had? 'A plague on both your houses! as the chap said at the theatre the other night." "There's room for a doctor in our neighborhood, Mr. Squills," said the Captain.
Squills? last till the boy goes to school; and then, somehow or other, the thaumata vanish into thin air, like ghosts at the cockcrow. A year after the prodigy has been at the academy, father and mother, uncle and aunt, plague you no more with his doings and sayings: the extraordinary infant has become a very ordinary little boy. Is it not so, Mr. Squills?" "Indeed you are right, sir.
That I was a very wonderful child, I take for granted; but nevertheless it was not of my own knowledge that I came into possession of the circumstances set down in my former chapters. But my father's conduct on the occasion of my birth made a notable impression upon all who witnessed it; and Mr. Squills and Mrs.
The syrup of squills is an old and tried remedy; give in 15 to 30 drop doses and repeat every 10 minutes till vomiting occurs. Seek out the cause if possible and remove it. It commonly lies in some derangement of the digestive organs.
"You have only got to put more capital on the land." PISISTRATUS. "Well, Mr. Squills, as you think so well of that investment, put your capital on it. I promise that you shall have every shilling of profit." PISISTRATUS. "On our land, Squills? Thank you." MR. SQUILLS. "No, no, anything but that; on the Great Western." Pisistratus relaxes into gloom.
"Something nice for supper, Kitty, my dear, and the largest punch-bowl. You like punch, Jack?" "Punch, Austin!" said Uncle Jack, putting his handkerchief to his eyes. The Captain pushed aside the dumb-waiter, strode across the room, and shook hands with Uncle Jack; my mother buried her face in her apron, and fairly ran off; and Squills said in my ear, "It all comes of the biliary secretions.
The same explanation applies to those plants which cannot live except in a marshy place, or indeed in the very water: they are even nice about the kind of water, some grow in ponds like the reeds at Reate, others in streams like the alders in Epirus, some even in the sea like the palms and the squills of which Theophrastus writes.
Johnson says, that a dropsy gains ground upon him; and he seems to think that a warmer climate would do him good. I understand he is now rather better, and is using vinegar of squills. I am, with great esteem, dear Sir, 'Your most obedient humble servant, 'March 7, 1784. All of them paid the most polite attention to my letter, and its venerable object. Dr.
"Pray, my good Sir," ask legions of fond parents, "what do you mean? Is it Dalby's Carminative, Daffy's Elixir, Brown's Syrup of Squills, or White's Magnetic Mixture? Is it of the soothing or the coercing system? a substitute for lollipops or for birch? rock candy or rock the cradle?" "Look" not "into your heart," responds our Muse, but into your nursery, and write!
The down-lands around are purple in its season with the beautiful Cornish heather, and golden with gorse, while dodder grows freely over the hedges; near the shore there is abundance of squills, sea-holly, and sea-campion. The descent to the village is a sharp drop; visitors usually alight above from their coach, and walk down the steep zigzag road.
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