ABOUT BUYING A HORSE. 175 



Besides, I tried this remedy once, and not being accus- 

 tomed to spirits, least of all rum, and finding it uncommonly 

 nice, I took three doses of it, one after the other. On this 

 occasion I certainly kept myself well covered up at night, for 

 I found myself in bed with my boots on in the morning. 

 My cold had gone, however. 



So as my first attempt at a medical note-book, to be entitled, 

 Every Man his own Doctor, specially suitable for this time 

 of year, I put down 



Happy Thought {for receipt). —Go to bed with your boots 

 on. Also don't wind up your watch at night. I didn't. 

 And what's more, I don't exactly know how or when I got 

 into bed. I mention these details because they must 

 form part of a cure for a cold : as most certainly I was 

 cured. 



The above too is a recipe for getting up with a slight head- 

 ache the next morning ; but this does not detract from its 

 value as a remedy for removing a cold. I forgot to mention, 

 though this will be understood by a careful perusal of the 

 foregoing remarks, that the patient must begin by drinking 

 plenty of rum, hot and strong, before he takes his boots off. 

 Otherwise, he'll never get to bed in his boots, and this I 

 consider to be the most important item in the cure. 



However, as I said before, and as I feel now, I afn not 

 well. 



I haven't exactly got a headache, and yet I am not free 

 from headache. 



I haven't got a regular cough, and yet I am not free from 



