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I administered potent drugs in person and left nothing to be taken according to direction except placebos. Once, in forgetfulness, I left a tablet of corrosive sublimate on the mantel after dressing a wound, and the man of the house told me next day that he had "'lowed to swaller it' and see if it wouldn't ease his headache!"
I'd jest as soon help a painter outen the water when I know'd he'd swaller the fust man he come to." But Charlton got up and reached a hand to the sinking Westcott. He shut his eyes while he pulled him in, and was almost sorry he had saved him. Let us not be too hard on Albert. He was in the first agony of having reached a hand to save little Katy and missed her.
Off I went that evenin' an' asked Almiry Nash ef she'd hev me. No, she wouldn't; I'd shilly-shallyed so long, she'd got tired er waitin' and took tew keepin' company with a doctor daown tew Bang-gore, where she'd ben visitin' a spell. I didn't find that as hard a rub to swaller, as I'd a thought I would, though Almiry was the richest, pootiest, and good-naterest of the lot.
"Lord, Sweeny! you're greener 'n the miners. When ye swaller things that way, don't laugh 'r ye'll choke yerself to death, like the elephant did when he read the comic almanac at breakfast." "I don't belave that nuther," asseverated Sweeny, anxious to clear himself from the charge of credulity. "Don't believe that!" exclaimed Glover. "He did it twice." "Och, go way wid ye.
"Yes; mom," he answered; "it was pretty tough to swaller that. But somehow I kind of of hated to shoot him." Inwardly he was puzzled. What did the girl mean? He realized that she was in earnest and that he had suddenly become a hero in her eyes. Fate was playing strangely into his hands.
First came Cy, as grave as a sexton; then the wheelbarrow with Poppy, white and limp and speechless, all in a bunch; then mamma, looking amused, anxious and angry; then Nelly, weeping as if her tender heart was entirely broken; while the man watched them, with a grin, saying to himself: "Twarn't my fault. The child was a reg'lar fool to swaller it."
Ony drink. Ha! dere be noting like tea." "Wow! man, mind what yer aboot. Ye'll scald him," said Dougall, anxiously. "You hole yoos tongue," replied the carpenter contemptuously, "me knows w'at mees do. Don' wants no Scoshmans for tell me. Voila! Monsieur have swaller un peu!" This was true.
Why, that ain't a-going to do any good. You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there's a spunk-water stump, and just as it's midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say: 'Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,
But now, do ye make the tay as ye like it, for I'n got no taste i' my mouth this day it's all one what I swaller it's all got the taste o' sorrow wi't." Dinah took care not to betray that she had had her tea, and accepted Lisbeth's invitation very readily, for the sake of persuading the old woman herself to take the food and drink she so much needed after a day of hard work and fasting.
Do you see that?" He pulled out of his pocket a dirty bottle and held it up. "There, some of the best beer made anywhere is in that. If you will take a swaller, I'll let you come ashore." Charlie could hardly contain himself now. He was scarcely able to sputter out this defiance, "When you catch me tasting that stuff, you'll know it!" "O jest hear him, Bob!" said Tim, mockingly.
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