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remedies for corns, which I have heard called 

 the opprobrium chirurgice, and which in their 

 annoyance are certainly one of the petty "mise- 

 ries" of life. Now, though I have waded 

 bravely, as you know, in angling, I have not 

 been rewarded as to my corn, only so much so, 

 that it is less troublesome abated but not 

 cured. 



PISCATOR. If I spoke of wading as a cure, I 

 expressed myself too strongly : I know no cure 

 for corns ; but this I am sure of, that they may 

 be next to cured by wading, or, what is equi- 

 valent, bathing the feet night and morning in 

 tepid water ; so softening the hardened cuticle 

 of which they consist, and then removing it by 

 assiduous paring (I use a file), and the avoid- 

 ance of pressure by wearing well-made shoes 

 and stockings. 



AMICUS. Thanks. Now, pray tell me some- 

 thing of the way we shall go, and the distance. 



PISCATOR. To Scalehill, the comfortable inn 

 close to Crummock Water, where we shall have 

 to leave our horses : the distance is about ten 

 miles. The country through which we are to 

 pass, being on the outskirts of the Lake District, 

 has a very mixed character, in part wild and 



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