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blast, meagre and pale the ghost of what it was" 

 wanted repairs. Three years elapsed after arriving in 

 England before the ague took its final leave of him. 



During that time several experiments were made with 

 the wourali poison. In London an ass was inoculated 

 with it, and died in twelve minutes. The poison was 

 inserted into the leg of another, round which a bandage 

 had been previously tied a little above the place where 

 the wourali was introduced. He walked about as usual, 

 and ate his food as though all were right. After an hour 

 had elapsed the bandage was untied, and ten minutes 

 after death overtook him. 



A she-ass received the wourali poison in the shoulder, 

 and died apparently in ten minutes. An incision was 

 then made in its windpipe, and through it the lungs were 

 regularly inflated for two hours with a pair of bellows. 

 Suspended animation returned. The ass held up her head, 

 and looked around: but the inflating being discontinued, she 

 sunk once more in apparent death. The artificial breath- 

 ing was immediately recommenced, and continued without 

 intermission for two hours. This saved the ass from final 

 dissolution; she rose up, and walked about; she seemed 

 neither in agitation nor in pain. The wound, through 

 which the poison entered, was healed without difficulty. 

 Her constitution, however, was so severely affected that 

 it was long a doubt if ever she would be well again. 

 She looked lean and sickly for above a year, but began 

 to mend the spring after, and by Midsummer became fat 

 and frisky. 



The kind-hearted reader will rejoice on learning that 

 Earl Percy, pitying her misfortunes, sent her down from 

 London to Walton Hall, near Wakefield. There she goes 

 by the name of Wouralia. Wouralia shall be sheltered 

 from the wintry storm; and when summer comes she 



