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cart for home, distant from twelve to fourteen miles. The 

 effect of this elixir was magical: by the time we reached 

 Ronnum, all symptoms of cholera or other intestinal commo- 

 tion had entirely disappeared, and the boy was as well as ever. 



In Wenersborg, and the adjacent districts, the usual 

 remedies for the cholera were emetics, copious bleeding, and 

 sudorifics of various kinds. Though amply provided with 

 medicines, recommended by the faculty, for the use of my 

 people, I for my own part, agreeably to a recipe obtained I 

 know not where had determined on the first symptoms of 

 the malady, to take twenty grains of calomel, combined with 

 an equal quantity of jalap ; and in consequence I was never 

 without two or three of these gigantic boluses in my pocket ! 



I possessed a little fishery, as said, at Kallshaga. But as 

 at this period I had other matter to attend to, my rod was 

 generally handed over to the fisherman, who came home 

 one day in considerable trepidation, stating he had been so 

 annoyed by the Dod-stank, or death-stink, as he expressed 

 it, perceivable on the water, that nothing should induce him 

 to go there again. Nor were the poor fellow's fears altogether 

 imaginary ; for the weather being very close and sultry, and 

 the burial-ground at Wenersborg perhaps not more than a 

 mile or so distant, it is quite possible the breeze wafted the 

 horrible effluvia thither from the new-made graves, the 

 rather, as the coffins in many instances were only slightly 

 covered with soil. 



As, however, the fishery was of some moment to me, I 

 was obliged, from that time forward, to use the rod myself; 

 and though I cannot positively corroborate the man's state- 

 ment, I must admit, that early in the morning, or late in the 

 evening, when the mist was hanging over the river, I have 



