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device," it was with a malicious pleasure that I went 

 below, and after a short search found it. An odd- 

 looking affair it was, which I had once been able to 

 use, but time had utterly obliterated the recollection 

 of the way to manage it. At one end was a piece of 

 bone about four inches long with a hole through it, 

 and a larger mouthpiece of wood at the other. Blow- 

 ing through it had no effect whatever, as I had 

 previously found out, and the memory of the proper 

 labial pucker had passed from my mind and my lips. 

 I handed it calmly to the doctor without a word. 

 He held it in his hand regarding it with puzzled un- 

 certainty, evidently to make up his mind, which end 

 was to go in his mouth, till noticing the knob on the 

 smaller, he correctly concluded that that was the part 

 to blow through, and applied it to his lips. Then 

 he blew, at first mildly, producing no result other 

 than a gentle hissing of air; he increased the force, 

 the hissing was louder, but that was all, no sound 

 which by the most vigorous imagination could be 

 construed into the cluck of a gobbler issued. He 

 next tried to pucker up his lips like the trum- 

 peter breathing into his trumpet, but with worse 

 effect if possible than before. Dismayed at his fu- 

 tile efforts, he gazed critically into the end as though 

 some of "Wie machinery must have been lost, but 

 finding nothing to encourage such a supposition, gave 

 up the attempt and held it out to Mr. Green, who 

 had been watching the operation with interest. The 

 latter gentleman was not to be caught, and waving 

 it indifferently aside said with admirable assurance: 



