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doctor ? " asked my father. " O, iss, sure, 'e's bin 

 down to Plemmath to Doctor Wise for advice, but 

 Doctor Wise don't gee no advice now. A's radoosed, 

 so I s'pose, for 'e doesn't ge no advice, but 'e charges 

 a guinea, and then you go to a shop and have 'is 

 subscription made up. Wall, Mr. Lillicrap went to 

 un all the same, and took a guinea with un, and 

 shewed Dr. Wise his leag — 'tes 'is leag that's bad — • 

 and Dr. Wise said 'e'd never zeed such a thing — 

 never — in all 'is born days ! Then after thinking a 

 bit 'e zaid 'e thought 'e 'ad knawed a case something 

 simler. But 'e couldn't tell whaat 'twaas. 'E'd look 

 tu's buke, and if Mr. Lillicrap would cal again 'e'd 

 tell 'n. Wall, he sarched 'is buke, and there 'twaas ! 

 And when Mr. Lillicrap comed again he told un — 

 "Tes toadstools!'" ** What ! " says, my father, 

 " toadstools ? " " Iss, vay, 'twaas toadstools ! 

 'Twaas toadstools between the skin and the vlesh. 

 'Twould come out all scruffy like. Didn't bust. 

 And 'twould hitch most dreadful. Wus hitch 'e 

 ever knawed." At this report of Mr. Lillicrap's 

 state, the party began to scratch themselves. The 

 sufferer lived *' home by." Infection was in the air, 

 or contagion in the walls and door-posts, and even 

 in the very chairs they were sitting on ! They had 

 caught the complaint. They could feel the toad- 

 stools growing. They would to bed, and examine 

 themselves closely. But when they had divested 



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