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marshy sides harboured many of these fearsome 

 creatures, and often a too enthusiastic fisherman paid 

 a heavy toll for the trout filched from the danger zone. 

 There a bottle of whisky was considered a sure cure, and, 

 administered in time, the " case" was never hopeless. 

 The particular brand of fire-water used, the only sort 

 available, the beloved of the loggers and miners, was 

 called "Pepper Whisky," from the little grains of black 

 pepper which floated loose in the liquid. 



We had none of the efficacious " Pepper " variety, 

 but a substitute was to hand among our stores, and 

 with this we started to fill up Yakimo to the brim, a 

 terrible business, as his religious scruples fought against 

 it and us. We let all that sort of thing go by the board, 

 and, with Ali turned renegade on his co-religionist, 

 held the victim down firmly the while the podgy 

 Russian shikari poured the whisky all over Yakimo 

 and down him. Kenneth said there was such a thing as 

 alcoholic poisoning, and suggested a halt. As though 

 it mattered. Yakimo was poisoned anyway, the 

 particular taint from which he suffered would be of 

 little moment to a man in such a pass. 



Kenneth's prescriptions in our own minor ills weren't 

 half so varied as Cecily's and mine. There abode with 

 him these three, pills, opium, and quinine, and the 

 greatest of these was quinine. 



And — a big And — quinine in a case of snake-bite is 

 impotent. 



How Yakimo breathed when we had finished with 

 him ! Such stertorian gasps as though his clothes 

 fitted too tightly. Probably they did ! Soon he was 



