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grows during the next four or five days into the 

 seed pod. 



Putting poppy buds into a solution of a normal 

 dose of aspirin dissolved in water side by side with 

 others in tap water, those in the aspirin solution 

 open a little quicker and a little wider, but instead 

 of closing when the others do, their golden cups 

 gently tip over and cease to be. Reducing the 

 strength of the aspirin prolongs their period of life 

 but slightly. 



In bootleg whiskey the effect is much the same. 

 The buds open quicker, and invariably pass on 

 within an hour or so, depending upon its strength. 

 It is very amusing to set up equally developed buds- 

 first water, then 100% of bootleg, then 502510 

 and 5% of bootleg, the camera showing the results- 

 dying one by one in proportion to the strength of the 

 bootleg those in water closing on time, perhaps de- 

 layed a little by the odor of the environment in 

 which its companions find themselves. Strychnine has 

 practically the same reaction you would expect a 

 stimulant to have if administered to a person. The 

 first two or three days the buds open quicker, not 

 closing till 9 o'clock P.M. but after the third day 

 when the effect has passed off, not looking nearly as 

 well as those in water; only these and other experi- 

 ments, extending over several periods of varying 



