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give me twenty pounds; it was to squeeze the 'lixer o' life out 

 o' my back; an your worship,, cus I would never cunsent, becoss 

 he said, that as soon as it was over,, I should die, an your wor- 

 ship knows, as while there's life there's hopes so I refused. Well, 

 your worship; one night, when I was in a very low state, what 

 does he do, but comes an brings another man with him; an he 

 comes an sits by my bed side and tecks hold of my hand 

 ' George,' says he, ' your dying/ so I never spoke, but I felt 

 very low, an he refused to give me any more medecine. So, he 

 says, " if I try to shift you a hit, it will do you good ;' an would your 

 worship believe, as all at once they took and doubled my feet 

 and head together, to get the 'lixer of life out o' my back. If I hadn't 

 screamed out murder, they wouid hev killed me, to get my 'lixer. 



" Humph ! doctor, if you begin this game ot killing people, you'll 

 soon get to dance upon nothing." 



" Sir Charles," said the doctor folding his arms, and throwing one 

 leg over the other, " what I intended doing I did not accomplish 

 sufficiently successful ; but in the conglomeration of matters, vital 

 and others, which my assidious studies have rendered down in my 

 own visual organs to occular demonstration created, embodied, con- 

 ceived, and brought forth in my own mind one man must be annihi- 

 lated that many may live ; from the spine it must come at first, and 

 be sent into all the arteries, ramifications, and vessels, and as it in- 

 crassates from the incurvate distillation, and becomes incorporated 

 into the inexe of life-death " 



t( All this may be very well, doctor, but to me it sounds a deal like 

 nonsense, and would form but a poor defence if you ever come to be 

 tried for your life. I would advise you to try the resurrection on 

 somebody first, and see what that will do." No ! no ! no ! Doctor 

 Getre, you must find two sureties for fifty pounds each, and your- 

 self for another fifty that you will not during the term of your life, 

 endeavour to squeeze any one to death. Go, Sir, and find your bail." 



" That I can do, Sir Charles/' said the mad doctor, cooly, " but 

 this shall not prevent me from putting my most important discovery 

 into execution. It is a duty which I owe to my fellow men ; and 

 those ties of affinity will then never more be severed by death. I 

 will petition government that those who have no relatives shall be 

 compelled to give up their elixir." 



" As you like as you like ; but I insist upon your bail. 'Tis now 

 time to close the court," says the baronet. 



. " But there are a few cases, your worship, which are rather ur- 

 gent that have not come on yet," said the constable. 



" Then you must come over to my house in the morning ; I shall 

 do nothing more to-day ; and do you mind see as if you can come 

 about business a little more orderly, and not as if all Bedlam was let 

 loose." 



" Yes, your worship, but I shall have to bring half of Scolding- 

 yard at my heels, in Old Lowcock's cause." 



" The devil you will ; well do as well as you can," and the court 

 was cleared with three loud huzzas for the worthy justice ; in which 

 Denman joined from his windows. 



